The active directory user principal name format typically takes the form user@domain, which is what
the current implementation expects. However, active directory also allows the definition of other
suffixes that are not actual domains. A user can still authenticate using this user principal name
but the behavior of our realm would cause it to fail as it parsed the suffix as a domain and used it
as the search base for the user. Instead, we should use the default user search base and only look
for entries that have this exact user principal name. In a scenario where a realm is configured for
multiple domains in the same forest, the search base should be the base for the entire forest.
relates elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch#1744
Original commit: elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch@de00c4817e
This commit adds support for a bind user when using the active directory realm. The addition of a
bind user also enables support for the user lookup mechanism, which is necessary to support the run
as functionality that we provide.
relates elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch#179
Original commit: elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch@40b07b3422
This commit adds a setting to allow changing the user search filter. Previously the filter was a
simple equality filter that mapped a given attribute to the value of the username. The default
behavior remains the same with this change but provides additional flexibility to users to who may
need more advanced LDAP searches. The user attribute setting has been deprecated due to the overlap
with the new filter setting.
relates elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch#1861
Original commit: elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch@e9d797e81c
- Document refresh interval for role mapping files
- Fix obsolete shield reference in transport profile example
- Clarify that AD & PKI don't support run_as
- Fix logstash conf examples
- Clarify interaction of SSL settings and PKI realm settings
- Document PKI DN format, and recommend use of pki_dn metadata
- Provide more details about action.auto_create_index during setup
Original commit: elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch@49ddb12a7e
This section has been removed from setting-up-authentication. This
commit removes a reference to this section that no longer exists.
Original commit: elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch@43aa0077f9
Includes:
- Extensive changes to "mapping roles" section
- New section for role mapping API
- Updates to LDAP/AD/PKI realms to refer to API based role mapping
- Updates to LDAP/AD realms: `unmapped_groups_as_roles` only looks at file-based mappings
- Updates to LDAP/AD realms: new setting for "metadata"
Original commit: elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch@6349f665f5
When the active directory realm was refactored to add support for authenticating against multiple
domains, only the default authenticator respected the user_search.filter setting. This commit moves
this down to the base authenticator and also changes the UPN filter to not include sAMAccountName
in the filter.
Original commit: elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch@d2c19c9bee
Jay Modi
Tim Vernum
Tim Brooks
Lisa Cawley
Deb Adair