[dancer-users] Dancer2 Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::Extensible::Provider::LDAP

Attila Bárdi attila.bardi at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 19:40:12 BST 2018


Hey Alex

well, my usecase is to allow user to login to the webapp, and after that they can change some attributes of theirs.
I don’t want to deal with groups (yet), maybe later.

> On 2018. Oct 10., at 18:06, Alex Mestiashvili <mailatgoogl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 3:42 PM Attila Bárdi <attila.bardi at gmail.com <mailto:attila.bardi at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I used Ldap with Dancer and it works pretty fine. Now I want to develop a new microsite, I thought it would be better with Dancer2(0.206000). But I cannot make the Ldap (0.702) authentication to work.
> 
> I turned on the ldap logging. By the log It looks working, because it found the user, but the page says login failed. The second search for the groups has 0 match, the user doesn't member of any group. But I can log in with the user foo, and he is not a member of any group neither. The result is LOGIN FAILED.
> 
> As far as I understand You'd like role-based access control for your app, where roles are actually ldap groups. I.e. uid belongs to a group <=> has a role.
> Now you have to decide what exactly will contain the roles. In unix a user can have 1 primary group and multiple secondary groups.
> IMHO it is more flexible to check for members of the secondary groups, which may have the following format in case of openldap:
> 
> objectClass: posixGroup
> displayName: powerusers
> description: "members have role users"
> gidNumber: 1001
> cn: powerusers
> memberUid: user1
> memberUid: user2
> memberUid: ...
> 
> If you'd like to check for the primary group then you'll probably will need to check for gidNumber.. 
>  
> 
> In the Dancer2 log says:
> 
> Odd number of elements in anonymous hash at /usr/local/share/perl/5.24.1/Dancer2/Plugin/Auth/Extensible/Provider/LDAP.pm line 279.
> 
> OpenLdap log:
> 
> Oct 10 14:35:13 openldap01 slapd[991]: conn=674413 fd=106 ACCEPT from IP=a.b.c.d:47724 (IP=0.0.0.0:389 <http://0.0.0.0:389/>)
> Oct 10 14:35:13 openldap01 slapd[991]: conn=674413 op=0 BIND dn="cn=Administrator,dc=gothamcity,dc=example,dc=com" method=128
> Oct 10 14:35:13 openldap01 slapd[991]: conn=674413 op=0 BIND dn="cn=Administrator,dc=gothamcity,dc=example,dc=com" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0
> Oct 10 14:35:13 openldap01 slapd[991]: conn=674413 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text=
> Oct 10 14:35:13 openldap01 slapd[991]: conn=674413 op=1 SRCH base="dc=example,dc=com" scope=2 deref=2 filter="(&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(uid=battila))"
> Oct 10 14:35:13 openldap01 slapd[991]: conn=674413 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text=
> Oct 10 14:35:13 openldap01 slapd[991]: conn=674413 op=2 SRCH base="dc=example,dc=com" scope=2 deref=2 filter="(&(objectClass=groupOfNames)(member=uid=battila,ou=people,dc=gothamcity,dc=example,dc=com))"
> 
> This seem to be the problem, this LDAP plugin as far as I see is intended to be used with WindowsAD.
> The searchfilter above is simply not applicable for your case. In case of openldap
>  rolefilter would be rather memberUID: $uid instead of member=uid=$uid,ou=blabla,dc=….

This second part is gone since I did add: disable_roles: 1 to my config.

> It is also hardcoded into the plugin:
> https://metacpan.org/source/SYSPETE/Dancer2-Plugin-Auth-Extensible-Provider-LDAP-0.702/lib/Dancer2/Plugin/Auth/Extensible/Provider/LDAP.pm <https://metacpan.org/source/SYSPETE/Dancer2-Plugin-Auth-Extensible-Provider-LDAP-0.702/lib/Dancer2/Plugin/Auth/Extensible/Provider/LDAP.pm>
> Lines 256-264:
>         # now get the roles
>  
>         $mesg = $ldap->search(
>             base   => $self->basedn,
>             filter => '(&'
>               . $self->role_filter . '('
>               . $self->role_member_attribute . '='
>               . $entry->dn . '))',
>         );
> But the good thing is that you can simply change that :) 

Yes, I saw that. But I will deal with roles much later.

> 
> 
> Oct 10 14:35:13 openldap01 slapd[991]: conn=674413 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text=
> Oct 10 14:35:13 openldap01 slapd[991]: conn=674413 op=3 UNBIND
> Oct 10 14:35:13 openldap01 slapd[991]: conn=674413 fd=106 closed
> 
> User entry in the openldap:
> 
> dn: uid=battila,ou=people,dc=gothamcity,dc=example,dc=com
> cn: Attila Bardi
> gidNumber: 1901
> givenName: Attila
> loginShell: /bin/bash
> description: example
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: posixAccount
> objectClass: shadowAccount
> objectClass: inetOrgPerson
> shadowInactive: -1
> shadowLastChange: 14284
> shadowMax: 99999
> shadowMin: 0
> shadowWarning: 7
> sn: Bardi
> uid: battila
> uidNumber: 43821
> homeDirectory: /home/battila
> mail: battila at example.com <mailto:battila at example.com>
> structuralObjectClass: inetOrgPerson
> entryUUID: d3a89750-5a5e-1038-9b9a-dbf2c7148bb9
> creatorsName: cn=Administrator,dc=gothamcity,dc=example,dc=com
> createTimestamp: 20181002071629Z
> userPassword:: e1e1ee1e1e1e1e1e1e1e1e1e1e1e1e1e1e1e1e1e1e1e
> entryCSN: 20181002075005.324787Z#000000#000#000000
> modifiersName: uid=battila,ou=people,dc=gothamcity,dc=example,dc=com
> modifyTimestamp: 20181002075005Z
> 
> 
> Dancer2 config.yml
> plugins:
>        Auth::Extensible:
>                realms:
>                        config:
>                                provider: Config
>                                users:
>                                        - user: 'foo'
>                                          pass: 'secret'
>                        users:
>                                provider: LDAP
>                                host:   'openldap01'
>                                binddn: 'cn=Administrator,dc=gothamcity,dc=example,dc=com'
>                                bindpw: 'secret'
>                                basedn: 'dc=example,dc=com'
>                                user_filter: '(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)'
>                                username_attribute: "uid"
> 
> I tried disable_roles: 1 after this but the result is still LOGIN FAILED.
> 
> 
> Another thing which in my opinion is plain wrong is that you need to provide admin binddn and bindpw.
> In openldap world normally a user can bind itself and get all the necessary attributes.
> Also in many setups it is just not secure to give admin access to ldap tree to a web app.
> 
> Here is the plugin for Dancer1 which works with openldap without admin access:
> https://pastebin.com/vy9ea9P8 <https://pastebin.com/vy9ea9P8>
The ldap plugin I used for Dancer1 required the admin bind too. But for me it is ok, because this way I could add a functionality to add/disable/enable users from the web interface based on roles.
It is the Authen::Simple::LDAP, and it has way much better documentation the this Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::Extensible::Provider::LDAP.

> May be it will give you some hints, though it is easier to fix the original Dancer2 plugin.

Yep, it seems to I have to dig deep into Daner2 plugin system to understand, then I can fix that LDAP modul.


> Best, 
> Alex

Best regards,
Attila

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