Howto Ldap Auth

External services that authenticate users often use Ldap for authentication.

Create a service account

Many, but not all, services require a user account and password to do authentication.

Use pwgen 64 to generate a password. Then create your user.

   samba-tool user create ps1-sa-servicename

Common Settings

Field	Value	Description
server	bob.ad.pumpingstationone.org
port	389
Security	TLS or set useTLS to True	TLS is a non-port changing encryption setting. Do not deploy with this setting off or disabled.
BindDN	CN=ps1-sa-serviceaccount,CN=Users,DC=ad,DC=pumpingstationone,DC=org	This is the username that the ldapclient is going to bind to ldap with
BindDN password	xienaiK0ohchaCao7pohv9auw2ohgaixieReeY7ahngoo1uingu9Shaokohfiej7	The password for the service account you created earlier.
BaseDN	CN=Users,DC=ad,DC=pumpingstationone,DC=org	This is where the user list is filtered from.
uid or username	sAMAccountName	Our user's difinitive username is stored in the sAMAccountName Field on the ldap object.
filter	(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)	Filters on not disabled account. Sometimes this needs to be preceded with a ! to negate the filter.
Account Suffix	@PS1	When attempting to check password, the sAMAccountName needs the suffix appeneded to it.
mail	mail	ldap field that stores the user's email address
Minimum password length	1	AD lets users bind to ldap with 0 length passwords. It's fscked up, but accepted.

• Depending on how the filter is applied, you may need to put a ! in front to negate it. The current format filters on users that are not disabled.
• You almost always want to get debug info for ldap when setting up. There are a lot of things that can go wrong.
• Start without the filter field, add it later.
• When a service checks a password, it usually attempts to bind to samba as that user. To bind successfully, it needs to bind as user@PS1
  • Some services apply setting different e.g. as a regex on the user, or as a template setting.
• If you try and bind to ldap with a 0 length password, it "works", sort of. There is no error, but you can't access anything substantial. This is enough to fool services into thinking that the password was correct.

ldapsearch

ldapsearch is a handy tool that is part of open ldap. You can query some handy information out of our ldap servers as follows if you have an account to bind with:

 #list laser cutter certified:
 ldapsearch -ZZ -v -x -H ldap://bob.ad.pumpingstationone.org -b "DC=ad,DC=pumpingstationone,DC=org" -D "PS1\myuser" -W "CN=Laser Engraver Certified"
 #list domain Admins
 ldapsearch -ZZ -v -x -H ldap://bob.ad.pumpingstationone.org -b "CN=Users,DC=ad,DC=pumpingstationone,DC=org" -D "PS1\myuser" -W "CN=Domain Admins"