Hello!

 

We are trying to join a RHEL8.4-server to our Active Directory with the realm name ourlab.se.

 

Our first attempt was to follow the RedHat-guide (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/integrating_rhel_systems_directly_with_windows_active_directory/connecting-rhel-systems-directly-to-ad-using-sssd_integrating-rhel-systems-directly-with-active-directory#discovering-and-joining-an-ad-domain-using-sssd_connecting-directly-to-ad) to join RHEL8.4 to an AD, also covering the installation and configuration of SSSD and the machine seem to have got joined to the AD (the computer account appears and both adcli info ourlab.se as well as the id USERNAME@ourlab.se commands return valid lookup-results from the Active Directory)… The TGT also seems to be fetched successfully.

 

However, we cannot log on to the system with any AD-account and /var/log/sssd/krb5_child.log contains the errors below (please view the attached log-files for a complete log-listing), hitting the critical failure (SSSDBG_CRIT_FAILURE), emitting the internal error “[111][Connection refused]” already at the call to the function krb5_cc_cache_match(), called from the function create_ccache():

 

(2021-11-18 11:02:16): [krb5_child[3585]] [sss_send_pac] (0x0080): failed to contact PAC responder

(2021-11-18 11:02:16): [krb5_child[3585]] [validate_tgt] (0x0040): sss_send_pac failed, group membership for user with principal [aron.kelemen\@OURLAB.SE@OURLAB.SE] might not be correct.

(2021-11-18 11:02:16): [krb5_child[3585]] [sss_child_krb5_trace_cb] (0x4000): [3585] 1637229736.192904: Destroying ccache MEMORY:rd_req2

 

(2021-11-18 11:02:16): [krb5_child[3585]] [get_and_save_tgt] (0x2000): Running as [285279201][285200513].

(2021-11-18 11:02:16): [krb5_child[3585]] [sss_get_ccache_name_for_principal] (0x4000): Location: [KCM:]

(2021-11-18 11:02:16): [krb5_child[3585]] [sss_get_ccache_name_for_principal] (0x2000): krb5_cc_cache_match failed: [111][Connection refused]

(2021-11-18 11:02:16): [krb5_child[3585]] [create_ccache] (0x0020): 1000: [111][Connection refused]

(2021-11-18 11:02:16): [krb5_child[3585]] [map_krb5_error] (0x0020): 1853: [111][Connection refused]

(2021-11-18 11:02:16): [krb5_child[3585]] [k5c_send_data] (0x0200): Received error code 1432158209

(2021-11-18 11:02:16): [krb5_child[3585]] [pack_response_packet] (0x2000): response packet size: [20]

(2021-11-18 11:02:16): [krb5_child[3585]] [k5c_send_data] (0x4000): Response sent.

(2021-11-18 11:02:16): [krb5_child[3585]] [main] (0x0400): krb5_child completed successfully

 

Interestingly, the following lines appeared in /var/log/secure when performing the logon-attempt above (with the AD-user kelaro):

Nov 18 13:12:50 test0003 sshd[4183]: pam_sss(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=172.17.111.92 user=kelaro

Nov 18 13:12:50 test0003 sshd[4183]: pam_sss(sshd:auth): received for user kelaro: 4 (System error)

Nov 18 13:12:52 test0003 sshd[4183]: Failed password for kelaro from 172.17.111.92 port 54138 ssh2

 

 

/etc/sssd/sssd.conf contains the following settings:

[sssd]

domains = ourlab.se

config_file_version = 2

services = nss, pam

default_domain_suffix = ourlab.se

 

[domain/ourlab.se]

ad_domain = ourlab.se

krb5_realm = OURLAB.SE

debug_level = 10

ad_server = STLBYDCVPLV003.ourlab.se

realmd_tags = manages-system joined-with-samba

cache_credentials = True

id_provider = ad

ad_hostname = test0003.ourlab.se

krb5_store_password_if_offline = True

default_shell = /bin/bash

ldap_id_mapping = True

use_fully_qualified_names = True

fallback_homedir = /home/%u@%d

access_provider = ad

 

We have also tried to:

1. Set krb5_validate to false as well as setting the default_ccache_name = FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_:%{uid} but none of these changes helped either.

2. Set the system crypto-policy from DEFAULT to DEFAULT:AD-SUPPORT (update-crypto-policies --set DEFAULT:AD-SUPPORT) did not help either.

3. Remove the host from the realm (realm leave), deleted it’s computer account from the Active Directory and tried to set it’s hostname as FDQN (hostnamectl set-hostname test0003.ourlab.se) and then re-joined it again (realm join), but still with the same results…

4. Apply the realm permit --realm=ourlab.se --all command, but we could still not log in with our user (kelaro@ourlab.se). User principal for kelaro@ourlab.se is aron.kelemen\@OURLAB.SE@OURLAB.SE.

5. Set realmd_tags to “manages-system joined-with-adcli”, but the problem still remained

6. Follow several other similar tutorials (for example https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-active-directory) to join the host to the AD, however all of them resulted in the same error described here.

 

 

The following SSSD and KRB5 package-versions are installed on the host:

sssd-client-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

sssd-krb5-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

sssd-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

sssd-nfs-idmap-2.4.0-9.el8_4.2.x86_64

sssd-common-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

sssd-ldap-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

sssd-proxy-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

sssd-ipa-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

sssd-kcm-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

sssd-tools-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

sssd-krb5-common-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

sssd-common-pac-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

sssd-ad-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

sssd-dbus-2.5.2-2.el8_5.1.x86_64

krb5-libs-1.18.2-8.3.el8_4.x86_64

 

I have also attached the krb5_child.log and ldap_child.log (created with log-level 0x3ff0) after my latest logon-attempt (as the user kelaro).

 

Any help/tips about:

  1. Why the “Connection refused”-error is being generated of the krb5_cc_cache_match-function
  2. Why the UPN is getting appended to the user name (aron.kelemen@OURLAB.SE@OURLAB.SE despite I have actively attempted to disable this by setting use_fully_qualified_names = False), and whether this can be declared as a fatal condition
  3. Possible failure reasons for sss_send_pac, leading to the “failed to contact PAC responder” error message…

would be greatly appreciated!

 

Med Vänliga Hälsningar / Best Regards

 

Áron Kelemen Szabó
IT Data Center Administrator / Linux Engineer
aron.kelemen@stralfors.se

PostNord Strålfors AB