[Pulp-list] pulpcore-client 3.2 ldap authentication

Dennis Kliban dkliban at redhat.com
Fri Apr 17 14:45:11 UTC 2020


Theoretically you should be able to use pulpcore-client even with LDAP
authentication in the web server. However, I have not tested this. I've
only helped users that use certificate authentication in the webserver.
What error are you seeing on the client side? Do you see any errors in pulp
logs?

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 10:20 AM Bin Li (BLOOMBERG/ 120 PARK) <
bli111 at bloomberg.net> wrote:

> Thanks Dennis.
>
> We use pulpcore python client to interact with api. Once we enable ldap on
> nginx, the below code that pulpcore-client authenticate will not work any
> more. I am wonder if we are still be able to use pulpcore-client? or we
> have to rewrite the client code. This sounds too much work for us for now.
> configuration = pulpcore.Configuration()
> configuration.host = 'http://localhost'
> configuration.username = 'admin'
> configuration.password = 'pwd'
> rpm_client = pulp_rpm.ApiClient(configuration)
>
> From: dkliban at redhat.com At: 04/16/20 08:38:38
> To: Bin Li (BLOOMBERG/ 120 PARK ) <bli111 at bloomberg.net>
> Cc: pulp-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] pulpcore-client 3.2 ldap authentication
>
> Please be aware that there is a bug in dynaconf 2.2 with how settings are
> merged[0]. I recommend upgrading it to dynaconf 3.0.0rc1 for best results
> when configuring authentication backends in pulp.
>
> [0] https://pulp.plan.io/issues/6244
> [1] https://pypi.org/project/dynaconf/3.0.0rc1/
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 7:02 PM Dennis Kliban <dkliban at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Pulp 3 does not currently support multiple users. We are planning to add
>> support for RBAC in the near future. However, I don't have a concrete
>> timeline for that. With all that said, you still can configure the web
>> server to perform authentication[0]. In this case Pulp will stop performing
>> authentication and will simply look for a WSGI environment variable that
>> contains the username.
>>
>> [0]
>> https://docs.pulpproject.org/installation/authentication.html#webserver-auth
>> [1]
>> https://docs.pulpproject.org/settings.html?highlight=remote_user#remote-user-environ-name
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 3:19 PM Bin Li (BLOOMBERG/ 120 PARK) <
>> bli111 at bloomberg.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I am thinking to configure nginx with ldap authentication, but I
>>> couldn't find a way to interact with the api. Does pulpcore-client work
>>> with ldap authentication? Has anyone made httpie work with ldap?
>>>
>>> Thanks
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>>
>
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