LDAP support broken in rpc.idmapd

[Ashish SHUKLA]

Hi,

I'm trying to use LDAP support in rpc.idmapd, and I get following errors:

% tail -6 /var/log/daemon.log
Dec 9 10:18:53 bk0-srv rpc.idmapd[24360]: libnfsidmap: using domain: domain.tld
Dec 9 10:18:53 bk0-srv rpc.idmapd[24360]: libnfsidmap: Realms list: 'DOMAIN.TLD'
Dec 9 10:18:53 bk0-srv rpc.idmapd[24360]: libnfsidmap: processing 'Method' list
Dec 9 10:18:53 bk0-srv rpc.idmapd[24360]: umichldap_init: Missing required information: LDAP_server LDAP_base
Dec 9 10:18:53 bk0-srv rpc.idmapd[24360]: libnfsidmap: Failed in /lib/libnfsidmap/umich_ldap.so's init(), returned -1
Dec 9 10:18:53 bk0-srv rpc.idmapd[24360]: libnfsidmap: requested translation method, 'umich_ldap', is not available

Following is idmapd.conf(5):

% cat /etc/idmapd.conf
[General]

Verbosity = 10
Pipefs-Directory = /run/rpc_pipefs
Domain = domain.tld
# set your own domain here, if id differs from FQDN minus hostname
# Domain = localdomain

[Translation]

Method = umich_ldap, nsswitch

[UMICH_SCHEMA]

LDAP_server = ldap.domain.tld
LDAP_base = dc=domain,dc=tld

[Mapping]

Nobody-User = nobody
Nobody-Group = nogroup

I'm not sure why rpc.idmapd complains about lack of LDAP_server, LDAP_base keys when they're present in the corresponding section ("UMICH_SCHEMA")

Thanks in advance

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ashish SHUKLA (wahjava)]

Seems to be fault of nfs-utils, and not libnfsidmap2. Details in next-update.

[Ashish SHUKLA (wahjava)]

I'm able to triage this bug, and it seems like the culprit is `conf_*` functions present in conffile.c (nfs-utils), which are also present in cfg.c (libnfsidmap2), and due to runtime linking, `conf_*` present in `rpc.idmapd` executable (nfs-utils) takes precedence over the `conf_*` functions present in `/lib/libnfsidmap.so.0` due to symbol search order, and therefore complicating configuration parsing.

The diff attached marks the `conf_*` functions, present in `conffile.c` which seem to conflict with functions present in `cfg.c`, as `static`, and therefore fixing the conflict.

For the record, I'm running `Ubuntu Precise`.

Thanks