[Fedora-directory-users] Account lockout counters not replicating; how to unlock users?

Wed Feb 8 01:27:02 UTC 2006

Bliss, Aaron wrote:

>Ulf, Thanks for getting back to me; yep, I understand that the consumer
>can never replicate information to the supplier (I wasn't very clear
>before, sorry about that); I set the passwordIsGlobalPolicy to on on
>both servers, and things are looking better; the passwordRetryCount,
>retryCountResetTime, accountUnlockTime attributes are now getting
>replicated properly from supplier to consumer, and deleting
>passwordRetryCount, retryCountResetTime attributes from the supplier
>does unlock accounts, however I'm still having a bit of a problem; what
>I've seen is that if a users account gets locked on the consumer because
>of bad password attempts, if that same user then attempts to login to a
>server that is configured to first attempt to bind to the supplier
>server, the user is allowed to login; What I see happening is that the
>passwordRetryCount, retryCountResetTime, accountUnlockTime attributes
>are set on the consumer properly, however these attributes are never set
>if the bad password attempts occur from a server that attempts to bind
>to the consumer first.  Any ideas?  Thanks again.
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Yes, this is a limitation of password policy.  What you really want is 
for the consumer to pass the BIND request back to a master and have all 
of the password policy attributes computed on the master to be 
replicated to all other servers.  Ulf, were you ever able to get Chain 
On Update to work in this configuration? 
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:ChainOnUpdate

>Aaron
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>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ulf
>Weltman
>Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 6:19 PM
>To: General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project.
>Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Account lockout counters not
>replicating;how to unlock users?
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>Hello Aaron.  Two separate things:
>I may have misunderstood your configuration, but nothing is replicated
>from a consumer to a master unless the consumer is actually configured
>as a hub with an agreement back to the supplier.  You can use
>passthrough authentication trickery to cause binds to be performed at
>the master if you don't want bi-directional replication.
>
>Also, those three attributes (passwordRetryCount, retryCountResetTime,
>accountUnlockTime) are special and will not replicate in any case unless
>you set passwordIsGlobalPolicy to on in cn=config.
>
>Ulf
>
>Bliss, Aaron wrote:
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>>P.S. Normal replication is happening, as well as typical referrals from
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>>consumer to supplier (i.e. password changes).  Any help with this will 
>>be much appreciated, as this is a rather huge problem right now.  
>>Thanks again.
>>
>>Aaron
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com
>>[mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bliss, 
>>Aaron
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 5:11 PM
>>To: General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project.
>>Subject: [Fedora-directory-users] Account lockout counters not 
>>replicating;how to unlock users?
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>>Here's my setup; 2 directory servers, 1 supplier, 1 consumer; I'm not 
>>sure why, but for some reason I'm not seeing password retry counters 
>>being replicated from the consumer to the supplier; here is what I've 
>>seen (I have fds setup to lock accounts after 5 bad password attempts, 
>>reset failure count  after 15 minutes):
>>-if a user types their password incorrectly on a server that binds 
>>first to a consumer, then their password retry count increments only on
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>>the consumer -if a user successfully binds to the server, then their 
>>password retry count does get reset This is a problem for a couple of 
>>reasons. If an account becomes locked out because of bad password 
>>attempts, I've tried deleting the attributes of passwordRetryCount and 
>>accountUnlockTime
>>(http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:PasswordReset) from the 
>>supplier, however for some reason this is not replicated to the 
>>consumer (is this an indication of a different problem?)  this is a 
>>problem as I have some of my linux servers to look to the supplier 
>>first for authentication, and then the consumer second, and visa versa 
>>for load balancing.  According to fds documentation, account lockout 
>>counters may not work as expected in a multi master environment
>>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/password.html#1086
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>>46 ; this is one of the reasons that I opted for a single master 
>>environment; please advise and thanks.  Given the issues that I'm 
>>having, what is the best way to unlock accounts that have been locked 
>>due to bad password attempts?
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>>Aaron
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