ID MAPPING
The ID-mapping feature allows SSSD to act as a client of Active Directory
without requiring administrators to extend user attributes to support POSIX
attributes for user and group identifiers.
NOTE: When ID-mapping is enabled, the uidNumber and gidNumber attributes are
ignored. This is to avoid the possibility of conflicts between
automatically-assigned and manually-assigned values. If you need to use
manually-assigned values, ALL values must be manually-assigned.
Please note that changing the ID mapping related configuration options will
cause user and group IDs to change. At the moment, SSSD does not support
changing IDs, so the SSSD database must be removed. Because cached passwords
are also stored in the database, removing the database should only be
performed while the authentication servers are reachable, otherwise users
might get locked out. In order to cache the password, an authentication must
be performed. It is not sufficient to use
sss_cache 8
to remove the database, rather the process consists of:
Making sure the remote servers are reachable
Stopping the SSSD service
Removing the database
Starting the SSSD service
Moreover, as the change of IDs might necessitate the adjustment of other
system properties such as file and directory ownership, it's advisable to
plan ahead and test the ID mapping configuration thoroughly.
Mapping Algorithm
Active Directory provides an objectSID for every user and group object in
the directory. This objectSID can be broken up into components that
represent the Active Directory domain identity and the relative identifier
(RID) of the user or group object.
The SSSD ID-mapping algorithm takes a range of available UIDs and divides it
into equally-sized component sections - called "slices"-. Each slice
represents the space available to an Active Directory domain.
When a user or group entry for a particular domain is encountered for the
first time, the SSSD allocates one of the available slices for that
domain. In order to make this slice-assignment repeatable on different
client machines, we select the slice based on the following algorithm:
The SID string is passed through the murmurhash3 algorithm to convert it to
a 32-bit hashed value. We then take the modulus of this value with the total
number of available slices to pick the slice.
NOTE: It is possible to encounter collisions in the hash and subsequent
modulus. In these situations, we will select the next available slice, but
it may not be possible to reproduce the same exact set of slices on other
machines (since the order that they are encountered will determine their
slice). In this situation, it is recommended to either switch to using
explicit POSIX attributes in Active Directory (disabling ID-mapping) or
configure a default domain to guarantee that at least one is always
consistent. See Configuration
for details.
Configuration
Minimum configuration (in the [domain/DOMAINNAME]
section):
ldap_id_mapping = True
ldap_schema = ad
The default configuration results in configuring 10,000 slices, each capable
of holding up to 200,000 IDs, starting from 200,000 and going up to
2,000,200,000. This should be sufficient for most deployments.
Advanced Configuration
ldap_idmap_range_min (integer)
Specifies the lower (inclusive) bound of the range of POSIX IDs to use for
mapping Active Directory user and group SIDs. It is the first POSIX ID which
can be used for the mapping.
NOTE: This option is different from min_id
in that
min_id
acts to filter the output of requests to this domain,
whereas this option controls the range of ID assignment. This is a subtle
distinction, but the good general advice would be to have
min_id
be less-than or equal to
ldap_idmap_range_min
Default: 200000
ldap_idmap_range_max (integer)
Specifies the upper (exclusive) bound of the range of POSIX IDs to use for
mapping Active Directory user and group SIDs. It is the first POSIX ID which
cannot be used for the mapping anymore, i.e. one larger than the last one
which can be used for the mapping.
NOTE: This option is different from max_id
in that
max_id
acts to filter the output of requests to this domain,
whereas this option controls the range of ID assignment. This is a subtle
distinction, but the good general advice would be to have
max_id
be greater-than or equal to
ldap_idmap_range_max
Default: 2000200000
ldap_idmap_range_size (integer)
Specifies the number of IDs available for each slice. If the range size
does not divide evenly into the min and max values, it will create as many
complete slices as it can.
NOTE: The value of this option must be at least as large as the highest user
RID planned for use on the Active Directory server. User lookups and login
will fail for any user whose RID is greater than this value.
For example, if your most recently-added Active Directory user has
objectSid=S-1-5-21-2153326666-2176343378-3404031434-1107,
ldap_idmap_range_size
must be at least 1108 as range size is
equal to maximal SID minus minimal SID plus one (e.g. 1108 = 1107 - 0 + 1).
It is important to plan ahead for future expansion, as changing this value
will result in changing all of the ID mappings on the system, leading to
users with different local IDs than they previously had.
Default: 200000
ldap_idmap_default_domain_sid (string)
Specify the domain SID of the default domain. This will guarantee that this
domain will always be assigned to slice zero in the ID map, bypassing the
murmurhash algorithm described above.
Default: not set
ldap_idmap_default_domain (string)
Specify the name of the default domain.
Default: not set
ldap_idmap_autorid_compat (boolean)
Changes the behavior of the ID-mapping algorithm to behave more similarly to
winbind's idmap_autorid
algorithm.
When this option is configured, domains will be allocated starting with
slice zero and increasing monotonically with each additional domain.
NOTE: This algorithm is non-deterministic (it depends on the order that
users and groups are requested). If this mode is required for compatibility
with machines running winbind, it is recommended to also use the
ldap_idmap_default_domain_sid
option to guarantee that at
least one domain is consistently allocated to slice zero.
Default: False
ldap_idmap_helper_table_size (integer)
Maximal number of secondary slices that is tried when performing mapping
from UNIX id to SID.
Note: Additional secondary slices might be generated when SID is being
mapped to UNIX id and RID part of SID is out of range for secondary slices
generated so far. If value of ldap_idmap_helper_table_size is equal to 0
then no additional secondary slices are generated.
Noklusējuma: 10
Well-Known SIDs
SSSD supports to look up the names of Well-Known SIDs, i.e. SIDs with a
special hardcoded meaning. Since the generic users and groups related to
those Well-Known SIDs have no equivalent in a Linux/UNIX environment no
POSIX IDs are available for those objects.
The SID name space is organized in authorities which can be seen as
different domains. The authorities for the Well-Known SIDs are
Null Authority
World Authority
Local Authority
Creator Authority
Mandatory Label Authority
Authentication Authority
NT Authority
Built-in
The capitalized version of these names are used as domain names when
returning the fully qualified name of a Well-Known SID.
Since some utilities allow to modify SID based access control information
with the help of a name instead of using the SID directly SSSD supports to
look up the SID by the name as well. To avoid collisions only the fully
qualified names can be used to look up Well-Known SIDs. As a result the
domain names NULL AUTHORITY
, WORLD AUTHORITY
,
LOCAL AUTHORITY
, CREATOR AUTHORITY
,
MANDATORY LABEL AUTHORITY
, AUTHENTICATION
AUTHORITY
, NT AUTHORITY
and BUILTIN
should not be used as domain names in sssd.conf.