ls hangs in internal-sftp for LDAP users

[Alexander Wuerstlein]

On 2017-05-12T13:49, mh at ow2.org <mh at ow2.org> wrote:
> Le 12/05/2017 à 12:47, Alexander Wuerstlein a écrit :
> > On 2017-05-12T12:07, mh at ow2.org <mh at ow2.org> wrote:
> >> I'm using 7.2p2-4ubuntu2.1
> >>
> >> I have the same exact problem as described in the first comment in
> >> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573
> >>
> >> Initially, my ldap server hostname and IP is only in /etc/hosts, not in
> >> the configured resolver. I can't use the real IP as a workaround in
> >> ldap.conf because of the TLS configuration which cares about the hostname.
> >>
> >> At the time I add the host name and IP in the resolver, the issue goes away.
> >>
> >> So, I'm a bit worried to be forced to declare a record in my DNS to
> >> enable SFTP listing ? There should be another way isn't ?
> >>
> >> I also tried to copy /etc/hosts to etc/hosts in the folder specified by
> >> ChrootDirectory directive with no more success.
> >>
> >> Notice : it happens only for ldap users, not local users
> > 
> > There should be a /etc/nsswitch.conf in your chroot where you can
> > configure where users and hostnames should be looked up. E.g. to prevent
> > LDAP lookups altogether you could configure the respective two lines to
> > read:
> > passwd:		files
> > group:		files
> > i.e. drop the 'ldap' option there. To check why /etc/hosts isn't being
> > used you can look if hosts: has 'files dns' or just 'dns' altogether
> > behind it.
> > 
> > But in general I would recommend putting all your hostnames into DNS
> > properly, in my experience this avoids all kinds of headaches with all
> > kinds of software. And leave /etc/hosts as empty as possible, because
> > that always grows inconsistent over time.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks Alexander,
> 
> I'll try the nsswitch.conf suggestion. Until then I've noticed the
> following : while the ldap hostname is into the DNS, if I also put a the
> corresponding line to etc/hosts in the chroot the hang happens again. So
> the hosts file in the chroot is red somehow.

It shouldn't hang in that case, thats strange. However, the order of the
options in nsswitch.conf determines which way to look up the hostname is
tried first, second, ... etc. One thing that might be a problem (but I'm
guessing, there might be a lot more going on[0]) would be whether you have
just the hostname or the FQDN in your ldap.conf and /etc/hosts. And if
its not the FQDN in some place, then what your search path in
/etc/resolv.conf and the value of your dnsdomainname might be. 

> But if it reads the hosts file propertly, what is the problem then ?

I'm not sure. Maybe try determining if its a ssh/sftp problem first: In
that chroot, does 'getent passwd' hang? Does it contain only local users
or ldap users as well? Does 'getent hosts $ldaphostname' hang? If yes,
its a problem with the libc name services that are behind getent and
stuff, so you would have to fix the config (in nsswitch.conf and all the
related things referenced from there). strace-ing the aforementioned
getent calls might help narrowing things further down.





Ciao,

Alexander Wuerstlein.

[0] e.g. if you are using sssd or hostnamed somewhere.