LDAPS Unknown error from LDAP module

27 Mar 2023

      Hello,

I’m using Freeradius 3.2.1 and with a standard config connected to an LDAPS
server, some requests (bind as admin, search/bind as user/…) are currently
finishing with those kind of errors :

Tue Mar 14 03:08:56 2023 : Auth: (43138)   Login incorrect (ldap: Failed
performing search: Unknown error): [user@domain] (from client XXX port 0
via TLS tunnel)
Tue Mar 14 03:30:24 2023 : Auth: (43714)   Login incorrect (ldap: Bind with
uid=serviceaccount,dc=subdomain,dc=com to ldaps://server:636
<mimestream://server:636> failed: Unknown error): [user@domain] (from
client XXX port 0 via TLS tunnel)

I can see something like 3 to 5% of requests being made and finishing as
“Unknown error”.

1/ Can you confirm that the “Unknown error” is from the LDAP response and
not Freeradius ? Can we have more information about status code of the
response ?
I’m seeing here two occurences of “Unknown error” in the ldap module
(ldap.c) but I can’t get more information, and it is hard for me to
activate debug that show Radius attribute in stdout (as some of them are
sensitive).

2/ Can I activate more debug on thoses errors to get the bottom of it ? Do
you have any insight to help me get more information ?

Here is my LDAP config :

ldap {
        server = 'ldaps://serverldap.com'
        port = 636
        identity = 'uid=serviceaccount,dc=subdomain,dc=com'
        password = ‘password'
        base_dn = 'dc=subdomain,dc=com'

        update {
                control:                        += 'radiusControlAttribute'
                request:                        += 'radiusRequestAttribute'
                reply:                          += 'radiusReplyAttribute'
        }
        user_dn = "LDAP-UserDn"
        user {
                base_dn = "ou=users,${..base_dn}"
                filter = "(uid=%{%{Stripped-User-Name}:-%{User-Name}})" }
        group {
                base_dn = "ou=groups,${..base_dn}"
                filter = '(objectClass=posixGroup)'
                name_attribute = cn
                membership_attribute = 'memberOf'
                cacheable_name = 'no'
                cacheable_db = 'no'
        }
        profile {
        }
        accounting {
                reference = "%{tolower:type.%{Acct-Status-Type}}"
                type {
                        start {
                                update {
                                        description := "Online at %S"
                                }
                        }
                        interim-update {
                                update {
                                        description := "Last seen at %S"
                                }
                        }
                        stop {
                                update {
                                        description := "Offline at %S"
                                }
                        }
                }
        }
        post-auth {
                update {
                        description := "Authenticated at %S"
                }
        }
        options {
                chase_referrals = no
                rebind = yes
                res_timeout = 20
                srv_timelimit = 3
                net_timeout = 10

                idle = 60
                probes = 3
                interval = 3

                ldap_debug = 0x0000
        }
        tls {
                require_cert    = 'allow'
                tls_min_version = "1.2"
        }
        pool {
                start = ${thread[pool].start_servers}
                min = ${thread[pool].min_spare_servers}
                max = ${thread[pool].max_servers}
                spare = ${thread[pool].max_spare_servers}

                uses = 0
                retry_delay = 30
                lifetime = 0
                idle_timeout = 60
        }
}

Thanks,
Cyril

LDAPS Unknown error from LDAP module

Grosjean Cyril