13.2.11. Creating Domains: LDAP An LDAP domain means that SSSD uses an LDAP directory as the identity provider (and, optionally, also as an authentication provider). SSSD supports several major directory services: Red Hat Directory Server OpenLDAP Identity Management (IdM or IPA) Microsoft Active Directory 2008 R2 Note All of the parameters available to a general LDAP identity provider are also available to Identity Management and Active Directory identity providers, which are subsets of the LDAP provider. Parameters for Configuring an LDAP Domain An LDAP directory can function as both an identity provider and an authentication provider. The configuration requires enough information to identify and connect to the user directory in the LDAP server, but the way that those connection parameters are defined is flexible. Other options are available to provide more fine-grained control, like specifying a user account to use to connect to the LDAP server or using different LDAP servers for password operations. The most common options are listed in Table 13.8, "LDAP Domain Configuration Parameters" . Note Server-side password policies always take precedence over the policy enabled from the client side. For example, when setting the ldap_pwd_policy=shadow option, the policies defined with the shadow LPAD attributes for a user have no effect on whether the password policy is enabled on the OpenLDAP server. Note Many other options are listed in the man page for LDAP domain configuration, sssd-ldap(5) . Table 13.8. LDAP Domain Configuration Parameters Parameter Description ldap_uri Gives a comma-separated list of the URIs of the LDAP servers to which SSSD will connect. The list is given in order of preference, so the first server in the list is tried first. Listing additional servers provides failover protection. This can be detected from the DNS SRV records if it is not given. ldap_search_base Gives the base DN to use for performing LDAP user operations. Important If used incorrectly, ldap_search_base might cause SSSD lookups to fail. With an AD provider, setting ldap_search_base is not required. The AD provider automatically discovers all the necessary information. Red Hat recommends not to set the parameter in this situation and instead rely on what the AD provider discovers. ldap_tls_reqcert Specifies how to check for SSL server certificates in a TLS session. There are four options: never disables requests for certificates. allow requests a certificate, but proceeds normally even if no certificate is given or a bad certificate is given. try requests a certificate and proceeds normally if no certificate is given, If a bad certificate is given, the session terminates. demand and hard are the same option. This requires a valid certificate or the session is terminated. The default is hard . ldap_tls_cacert Gives the full path and file name to the file that contains the CA certificates for all of the CAs that SSSD recognizes. SSSD will accept any certificate issued by these CAs. This uses the OpenLDAP system defaults if it is not given explicitly. ldap_referrals Sets whether SSSD will use LDAP referrals, meaning forwarding queries from one LDAP database to another. SSSD supports database-level and subtree referrals. For referrals within the same LDAP server, SSSD will adjust the DN of the entry being queried. For referrals that go to different LDAP servers, SSSD does an exact match on the DN. Setting this value to true enables referrals; this is the default. Referrals can negatively impact overall performance because of the time spent attempting to trace referrals. Disabling referral checking can significantly improve performance. ldap_schema Sets what version of schema to use when searching for user entries. This can be rfc2307 , rfc2307bis , ad , or ipa . The default is rfc2307 . In RFC 2307, group objects use a multi-valued attribute, memberuid , which lists the names of the users that belong to that group. In RFC 2307bis, group objects use the member attribute, which contains the full distinguished name (DN) of a user or group entry. RFC 2307bis allows nested groups using the member attribute. Because these different schema use different definitions for group membership, using the wrong LDAP schema with SSSD can affect both viewing and managing network resources, even if the appropriate permissions are in place. For example, with RFC 2307bis, all groups are returned when using nested groups or primary/secondary groups. If SSSD is using RFC 2307 schema, only the primary group is returned. This setting only affects how SSSD determines the group members. It does not change the actual user data. ldap_search_timeout Sets the time, in seconds, that LDAP searches are allowed to run before they are canceled and cached results are returned. When an LDAP search times out, SSSD automatically switches to offline mode. ldap_network_timeout Sets the time, in seconds, SSSD attempts to poll an LDAP server after a connection attempt fails. The default is six seconds. ldap_opt_timeout Sets the time, in seconds, to wait before aborting synchronous LDAP operations if no response is received from the server. This option also controls the timeout when communicating with the KDC in case of a SASL bind. The default is five seconds. LDAP Domain Example The LDAP configuration is very flexible, depending on your specific environment and the SSSD behavior. These are some common examples of an LDAP domain, but the SSSD configuration is not limited to these examples. Note Along with creating the domain entry, add the new domain to the list of domains for SSSD to query in the sssd.conf file. For example: Example 13.2. A Basic LDAP Domain Configuration An LDAP domain requires three things: An LDAP server The search base A way to establish a secure connection The last item depends on the LDAP environment. SSSD requires a secure connection since it handles sensitive information. This connection can be a dedicated TLS/SSL connection or it can use Start TLS. Using a dedicated TLS/SSL connection uses an LDAPS connection to connect to the server and is therefore set as part of the ldap_uri option: Using Start TLS requires a way to input the certificate information to establish a secure connection dynamically over an insecure port. This is done using the ldap_id_use_start_tls option to use Start TLS and then ldap_tls_cacert to identify the CA certificate which issued the SSL server certificates.

Commands:
id uid=500(myserver) gid=500(myserver) groups=500(myserver),510(myothergroup)
domains = LOCAL,LDAP1,AD,PROXYNIS
An LDAP domain [domain/LDAP] cache_credentials = true id_provider = ldap auth_provider = ldap ldap_uri = ldaps://ldap.example.com:636 ldap_search_base = dc=example,dc=com
An LDAP domain [domain/LDAP] cache_credentials = true id_provider = ldap auth_provider = ldap ldap_uri = ldap://ldap.example.com ldap_search_base = dc=example,dc=com ldap_id_use_start_tls = true ldap_tls_reqcert = demand ldap_tls_cacert = /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt