freeradius with multiple ldap servers

Sambuddho Chakravarty sc2516 at columbia.edu
Thu Jul 3 06:33:42 CEST 2008


Hello ,
 Maybe I didn't as the correct question previously. Is it that failover
works only when the first LDAP server is not reachable ? In my case both
servers are reachable. I want to configure a case where if the login
fails in one of the servers , the other one is tried. 

Thanks
Sambuddho
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 23:45 +0100, Ivan Kalik wrote:
> http://wiki.freeradius.org/index.php/Rlm_ldap
> 
> See use of password_header and password_attribute.
> 
> Ivan Kalik
> Kalik Informatika ISP
> 
> 
> Dana 2/7/2008, "Sambuddho Chakravarty" <sc2516 at columbia.edu> piše:
> 
> >Hello
> > I think I know what the problem is. The radius server is looking up
> >using cleartext password , while the LDAP data base stores the hashed
> >passwords. How can I force the radiuse server to search for the password
> >as a hashed value (rather than searching for the clear-text value) ?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Sambuddho
> >On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:09 -0400, Sambuddho Chakravarty wrote:
> >> Hello Alan
> >>   I made sure this time that rlm_ldap was compiled. Now the following is
> >> the configuration
> >>
> >> ------/etc/raddb/modules/ldap-----------
> >>
> >> ldap ldap1 {
> >> 	server = "a.b.c.d"
> >> 	...
> >> 	}
> >>
> >> ldap ldap2 {
> >> 	server = "w.x.y.z"
> >> 	...
> >> 	}
> >>
> >> -----/etc/raddb/radiusd.conf-----
> >>
> >>
> >> authorize {
> >>        ldap1
> >>
> >>          ldap2
> >>
> >>         }
> >>
> >>    authenticate {
> >>         ldap1
> >>         ldap2
> >>         }
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------
> >>
> >> When I execute /sbin/radiusd -X
> >>
> >> It shows instantiating module ldap1 and module ldap2
> >>
> >> ....
> >>  Module: Instantiating ldap2
> >>   ldap ldap1 {
> >>         server = "a.b.c.d"
> >>         port = 389
> >> ....
> >>  Module: Instantiating ldap2
> >>   ldap ldap2 {
> >>         server = "w.x.y.z"
> >>         port = 389
> >> ....
> >>
> >> When sending a radtest request using the following command (from the
> >> same machine as one which is running the server)
> >>
> >> $ radtest user "secret" localhost 2 testing123
> >>
> >> I get ACCESS-REJECT reply from the sever.
> >>
> >> On the server the logs show something like this
> >> ---------------------------------------------------
> >> It shows binding to both LDAP servers one by one through something like
> >> this :
> >>
> >> rlm_ldap: performing user authorization for catch
> >> WARNING: Deprecated conditional expansion ":-".  See "man unlang" for
> >> details
> >>         expand: (uid=%{Stripped-User-Name:-%{User-Name}}) -> (uid=catch)
> >>         expand: ou=People,dc=example,dc=example ->
> >> ou=People,dc=example,dc=example
> >> rlm_ldap: ldap_get_conn: Checking Id: 0
> >> rlm_ldap: ldap_get_conn: Got Id: 0
> >> rlm_ldap: attempting LDAP reconnection
> >> rlm_ldap: (re)connect to 30.0.0.2:389, authentication 0
> >> rlm_ldap: bind as / to 30.0.0.2:389
> >> rlm_ldap: waiting for bind result ...
> >> rlm_ldap: Bind was successful
> >> rlm_ldap: performing search in ou=People,dc=example,dc=example, with
> >> filter (uid=catch)
> >> rlm_ldap: object not found or got ambiguous search result
> >> rlm_ldap: search failed
> >> rlm_ldap: ldap_release_conn: Release Id: 0
> >> ++[ldap1] returns notfound
> >> rlm_ldap: - authorize
> >> rlm_ldap: performing user authorization for catch
> >> WARNING: Deprecated conditional expansion ":-".  See "man unlang" for
> >> details
> >>         expand: (uid=%{Stripped-User-Name:-%{User-Name}}) -> (uid=catch)
> >>         expand: ou=People,dc=example,dc=example ->
> >> ou=People,dc=example,dc=example
> >> rlm_ldap: ldap_get_conn: Checking Id: 0
> >> rlm_ldap: ldap_get_conn: Got Id: 0
> >> rlm_ldap: attempting LDAP reconnection
> >> rlm_ldap: (re)connect to 10.0.0.1:389, authentication 0
> >> rlm_ldap: bind as / to 10.0.0.1:389
> >> rlm_ldap: waiting for bind result ...
> >> rlm_ldap: Bind was successful
> >> rlm_ldap: performing search in ou=People,dc=example,dc=example, with
> >> filter (uid=catch)
> >> rlm_ldap: object not found or got ambiguous search result
> >> rlm_ldap: search failed
> >> rlm_ldap: ldap_release_conn: Release Id: 0
> >> ++[ldap2] returns notfound
> >>
> >> auth: No authenticate method (Auth-Type) configuration found for the
> >> request: Rejecting the user
> >> auth: Failed to validate the user.
> >>
> >> You can see it is attempting to search both databases but fails. If I
> >> use a simple telnet or ssh to authenticate against the LDAP server it
> >> logs in fine. LDAP client login against the LDAP server is otherwise
> >> working fine. I know I have been bothering using trivial question. But
> >> any help would be appreciated :-)
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >> Sambuddho
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 22:33 +0200, Alan DeKok wrote:
> >> > Sambuddho Chakravarty wrote:
> >> > >  This is exactly what I did . I forgot to put the separate module names
> >> >
> >> >   The consistent problems you see make me think that the issue is more
> >> > than "forgot".
> >> >
> >> > > And now when I try to start the server this is what the error I see :
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > server {
> >> > >  modules {
> >> > >  Module: Checking authenticate {...} for more modules to load
> >> > > //etc/raddb/modules/ldap1[29]: Failed to link to module 'rlm_ldap':
> >> >
> >> >   So.... was that module built?  Apparently not...
> >> >
> >> > > When trying with a single server ,it matches the radius request against
> >> > > rlm_pap and not rlm_ldap. I am confused.
> >> >
> >> >   Perhaps reading the debug output (and that of "configure" and "make")
> >> > would help.
> >> >
> >> >   Alan DeKok.
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