On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 09:07 -0500, Alan DeKok wrote:
On Feb 10, 2018, at 10:22 AM, Isaac Boukris <iboukris@gmail.com> wrote:
I am working on improving AD group matching for mschap authentication, taking advantage of the new wbclient direct interface which returns the user's token (including group membership SIDs) as part of NTLM authentication.
Work in progress: https://github.com/frenche/freeradius-server/commit/9af7dfd634a251f 68b07064603ccbbca308492bf
It looks good.
Yes, it's good to use the SIDs that are returned from wbcCtxAuthenticateUserEx as you get them for free, rather than having to query winbindd for them again. I'm not sure why you're creating AD-Group-SID in the outer - just create it in the current virtual server lists, and let the admin copy it to the outer if they need to using unlang.
I'm now thinking on how to implement the caching of group-name to SID mapping with configurable timeout, ideally using existing interface - ideas welcome.
The "cache" module should be able to do that. My $0.02 is to just create the mappings, and let the rest of the policies decide what to cache (or not).
Sounds sensible to me.
@mcnewton, I noticed at last there is a similar group-compare function in v4 branch, though I think the two actually can complete each other.
I'd like Matthew's comments, too.
I'm not sure if the same caveat applies to this as to using wbcCtxGetGroups; probably worth checking this reply: https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2016-November/116996.ht ml I'd imagine it is the same. The good thing about your method is that you can /only/ use it after authentication, so that forces the data to be recent, at least. It also really needs to compare group names, and make SIDs the secondary comparison method. Names are nice and easy for admins, SIDs are things that should generally stay hidden. -- Matthew