#2984 Don't prompt for password if there is already one on the stack
Closed: Fixed 7 years ago Opened 8 years ago by jhrozek.

Some projects we integrate with (like RHEV-M) have a guest agent that the RHEV engine feeds the password the user provided to access the RHEV engine. It's expected that the guest agent then puts the password on the PAM stack in the virtualized guest and provide a kind of a single-sign-on this way.

But since recent versions, we tend to prompt for password in sssd (unless use_first_pass is used) itself to make sure we can run the preauth first and prompt for 2FA.

We should enhance pam_sss to handle this kind of a situation better and if there is a password on the stack, just try to authenticate with it.


So far putting to 1.15 and will ask in the downstream BZ if the RHEV-M team is happy with a workaround.

milestone: NEEDS_TRIAGE => SSSD 1.15 beta

This should be fixed sooner because the workaround is not enough to use RHEV-M seamlessly.

milestone: SSSD 1.15 beta => SSSD 1.14.0

Downstream BZ -> Increase in priority.

priority: major => critical

1.14.0 should be released no later than Wednesday next week, this ticket should not block the 1.14.0 release.

milestone: SSSD 1.14.0 => SSSD 1.14.1

The patch is still not ready and we need to release 1.14.2 soon.

milestone: SSSD 1.14.1 => SSSD 1.14.2

So far the workaround seems to have made everyone happy. We should fix this, but IMO next release is OK. Moving to triage.

milestone: SSSD 1.14.2 => NEEDS_TRIAGE

This is blocked by pam-wrapper patches that are in 1.15 Alpha, so I'm putting this ticket into 1.15 Beta.

milestone: NEEDS_TRIAGE => SSSD 1.15 Beta

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7 years ago

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7 years ago

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7 years ago

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7 years ago

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