I have a little problem regarding the way my users are authenticated.
My debian 7 is connected to an LDAP server using /etc/libnss-ldap.conf
I have some local users, and some ldap users.
On the nsswitch.conf file, I want that users are first search for in the "files" and only in "ldap" if not found in "files".
The problem is that for a local user that does the monitoring (nagios) I have some timeouts on my checks. When I try to "su nagios", it takes so much time!
When I try "strace su nagios", I can see there is a lot of request to the LDAP server, why that?
Here is the content of nsswitch:
passwd: files [SUCCESS=return] ldap
group: files [SUCCESS=return] ldap
shadow: files [SUCCESS=return] ldap
hosts: files dns
networks: files
protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files
netgroup: nis
I suspect something in the files that stand in /etc/pam.d. here is the content of some files:
common-account:
account [success=2 new_authtok_reqd=done default=ignore] pam_unix.so broken_shadow
account [success=1 default=ignore] pam_ldap.so
account requisite pam_deny.so
account required pam_permit.so
common-auth:
auth [success=2 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure
auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_ldap.so use_first_pass
auth requisite pam_deny.so
auth required pam_permit.so
auth optional pam_mount.so
auth optional pam_smbpass.so migrate
common-password:
password [success=2 default=ignore] pam_unix.so obscure sha512
password [success=1 user_unknown=ignore default=die] pam_ldap.so use_authtok try_first_pass
password requisite pam_deny.so
password required pam_permit.so
password optional pam_smbpass.so nullok use_authtok use_first_pass
Thx a lot in advance
Best Answer
It would be worth using
strace
and reviewing the output to identify which database (passwd, group, other) su is consulting when it's doing the LDAP lookups.Sounds like it is searching the LDAP directory to find all the groups the target account belongs to. Solution was to set
nss_base_group
in/etc/libnss-ldap.conf
to reduce the search space.