Details
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Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Done
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Description
The ldap search in extensions/guacamole-auth-ldap/src/main/java/org/apache/guacamole/auth/ldap/user/UserService.java to find the DN of the user who is logging in (i.e. inside getUserDNs() ) fails if the LDAPSearchResults include an LDAP referral, because LDAPSearchResults.next() throws an LDAPReferralException:
This particularly affects Active Directory, where typically the LDAP implementation has separate partitions for DNS zones and Configuration (see e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32989159/ldapsearch-entire-active-directory-without-refldap-returns for an example of the three LDAP referrals that AD returns). Empirically, against my AD, even when an ldap search for (sAMAccountName=$USERNAME) correctly returns the dn for the searched-for $USERNAME , I still also get the three ldap referrals mentioned in that stackoverflow post. Thus, even though the first result in the LDAPSearchResults has the correct dn for the user logging in, results.next() then throws an exception when it encounters the referral and the login fails.
This only happens when ldap-user-base-dn is set to the base dn of my AD (i.e. with dc=example,dc=com I get referrals, but with ou=Users,dc=example,dc=com as the search base I do not). The structure of my AD requires me to set the base dn as the search base, though.
N.B. A possible workaround is to explicitly query the Global Catalog (by setting ldap-port: 3268). However, that performs a forest-wide search rather than just a domain-wide search, which might not be desired.
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Issue Links
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GUACAMOLE-244 Allow configuration of LDAP alias dereferencing
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- Resolved
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