On 03/17/2015 06:00 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 13:30 +0100, Martin Babinsky wrote:
On 03/16/2015 12:15 PM, Martin Kosek wrote:
On 03/13/2015 05:37 PM, Martin Babinsky wrote:
Attaching the next iteration of patches.
I have tried my best to reword the ipa-client-install man page bit about the
new option. Any suggestions to further improve it are welcome.
I have also slightly modified the 'kinit_keytab' function so that in Kerberos
errors are reported for each attempt and the text of the last error is retained
when finally raising exception.
The approach looks very good. I think that my only concern with this patch is
this part:
+ ccache.init_creds_keytab(keytab=ktab, principal=princ)
...
+ except krbV.Krb5Error as e:
+ last_exc = str(e)
+ root_logger.debug("Attempt %d/%d: failed: %s"
+ % (attempt, attempts, last_exc))
+ time.sleep(1)
+
+ root_logger.debug("Maximum number of attempts (%d) reached"
+ % attempts)
+ raise StandardError("Error initializing principal %s: %s"
+ % (principal, last_exc))
The problem here is that this function will raise the super-generic
StandardError instead of the proper with all the context and information about
the error that the caller can then process.
I think that
except krbV.Krb5Error as e:
if attempt == max_attempts:
log something
raise
would be better.
Yes that seems reasonable. I'm just thinking whether we should re-raise
Krb5Error or raise ipalib.errors.KerberosError? the latter options makes
more sense to me as we would not have to additionally import Krb5Error
everywhere and it would also make the resulting errors more consistent.
I am thinking about someting like this:
except krbV.Krb5Error as e:
if attempt == attempts:
# log that we have reaches maximum number of attempts
raise KerberosError(minor=str(e))
What do you think?
Are you retrying on any error ?
Please do *not* do that, if you retry many times on an error that
indicates the password is wrong you may end up locking an administrative
account. If you want to retry you should do it only for very specific
timeout errors.
Simo.
I have taken a look at the logs attached to the original BZ
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1161722).
In ipaclient-install.log the kinit error is:
"Cannot contact any KDC for realm 'ITW.USPTO.GOV' while getting initial
credentials"
which can be translated to krbV.KRB5_KDC_UNREACH error. However,
krb5kdc.log (http://pastebin.test.redhat.com/271394) reports errors
which are seemingly unrelated to the root cause (kinit timing out on
getting host TGT).
Thus I'm not quite sure which errors should we chceck against in this
case, anyone care to advise? These are potential candidates:
KRB5KDC_ERR_SVC_UNAVAILABLE, "A service is not available that is
required to process the request"
KRB5KRB_ERR_RESPONSE_TOO_BIG, "Response too big for UDP, retry with TCP"
KRB5_REALM_UNKNOWN, "Cannot find KDC for requested realm"
KRB5_KDC_UNREACH, "Cannot contact any KDC for requested realm"
--
Martin^3 Babinsky
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