[Freeipa-devel] [RFC] Migrating existing environments to Trust - v2: reverse DNS lookup

[Dmitri Pal]

On 05/29/2014 01:31 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 18:50 +0200, Petr Spacek wrote:
>> On 29.5.2014 13:48, Sumit Bose wrote:
>>> == slapi-nis plugin/compat tree ==
>>> The compat tree offers a simplified LDAP tree with user and group data
>>> for legacy clients. No data for this tree is stored on disk but it is
>>> always created on the fly. It has to be noted that legacy clients might
>>> be one of the major users of the user-views because chances are that
>>> they were attached to the legacy systems with legacy ID management which
>>> should be replaced by IPA.
>>>
>>> In contrast to the extdom plugin it is not possible to determine the
>>> client based on the DN because connection might be anonymous. The
>>> Slapi_PBlock contains the IP address of the client in
>>> SLAPI_CONN_CLIENTNETADDR. Finding the matching client object in the IPA
>>> tree requires a reverse-DNS lookup which might be unreliable. If the
>>> reverse-DNS lookup was successful the slapi-nos plugin can follow the
>>> same steps as the extdom plugin to lookup up and apply the view.
>> Do we really want to base security decisions on reverse DNS resolution?
> No we do not want to play these games.
>
>> That
>> will be insecure. Attacker could tamper with reverse DNS to change UID/GID
>> mapping ... Maybe we can store IP->view mapping in the LDAP database. That
>> should be reliable if we assume that only TCP is used for connection to LDAP
>> database.
> It is not just about it being insecure, it is about it being wrong.
> As soon as you have a bunch of clients behind a NAT this pans goes belly
> up.
>
>>> As a alternative slapi-nis can provide one tree for each view.
> This is the only alternative, if we decide to pursue it.
>
> Simo.
>
Can we at least do something like CoS and use the base compat tree and 
overwrite just uid/gid on the fly instead of using the whole another 
view? That would reduce the size of the additional views significantly 
and would save cycles used for keeping each view in sync with underlying 
DB. In this case there will be still one view and dynamic overwrite in 
the search results.

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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.