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beatzaplentyandClaude Sonnet 4.6 fc8f7baf3e
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fix(ipa): restore IPA password login via LightDM and su
Two independent fixes:

1. hashedPassword = "!" on the IPA user stub
   Without any shadow entry, pam_unix returns PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL
   before prompting, so PAM_AUTHTOK is never set. The "!" marker
   (account locked, not a real hash) ensures a shadow entry exists so
   pam_unix prompts and sets PAM_AUTHTOK — which the subsequent
   pam_sss module can then use.

2. pam_sss try_first_pass instead of use_first_pass (login + su)
   use_first_pass silently fails when PAM_AUTHTOK is unset.
   try_first_pass prompts independently in that case, making IPA
   password auth work even if pam_unix returns early for any reason.

Root cause found during incident: wayne (uid 50002) was outside IPA's
auto-SID range (163800000+), so sidgen never assigned him an
ipaNTSecurityIdentifier. Without it, ipadb's handle_authdata step fails
with "Generic error" after SPAKE pre-auth succeeds. Fixed by manually
adding objectClass: ipaNTUserAttrs + ipaNTSecurityIdentifier RID 550002
to wayne's LDAP entry on domain-controller. Any future IPA user with a
manually-assigned uid outside the auto-range needs the same treatment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 17:25:37 +10:00

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# Fully declarative FreeIPA domain membership.
#
# Imported by modules/common/configuration.nix — no per-host wiring needed.
# Enables itself automatically on any host that has a sops-encrypted keytab
# at secrets/<hostname>.keytab; is a no-op for all other hosts.
#
# To enroll a new host:
# 0. scripts/secrets/sync-host-keys.sh <flake-target>
# 1. scripts/ipa/create-nixos-ipa-host-account.sh [--ip <addr>] <hostname>
# (adds .sops.yaml rule, runs ipa host-add, encrypts keytab in one step)
# 2. git add secrets/<hostname>.keytab .sops.yaml && git commit
# 3. Deploy — no further steps required.
#
# Manual fallback (if the script isn't usable):
# a. On the FreeIPA server: ipa host-add <fqdn> [--ip-address=<ip>] --force
# b. On the FreeIPA server: ipa-getkeytab -s <ipa-server> -p host/<fqdn> -k /tmp/<host>.keytab
# c. From the repo root (path must match for sops creation rule to apply):
# cp /tmp/<host>.keytab secrets/<host>.keytab
# sops -e --input-type binary -i secrets/<host>.keytab
# d. Commit secrets/<host>.keytab and the updated .sops.yaml, then deploy.
#
# vars dependencies: homeDomain, ipaServer, domainControllerIp, ipaUser
{ config, lib, pkgs, vars, ... }:
let
keytabPath = ../../secrets + "/${config.networking.hostName}.keytab";
enabled = builtins.pathExists keytabPath;
realm = lib.strings.toUpper vars.homeDomain;
fqdn = "${config.networking.hostName}.${vars.homeDomain}";
# "sweet.home" -> "dc=sweet,dc=home"
basedn = lib.strings.concatMapStringsSep "," (c: "dc=${c}") (lib.strings.splitString "." vars.homeDomain);
# security.ipa.certificate expects a derivation (package), not a raw path.
caCertPkg = pkgs.writeText "ipa-ca.crt" (builtins.readFile ../../certs/ipa-ca.crt);
in
lib.mkIf enabled {
networking.domain = lib.mkDefault vars.homeDomain;
networking.nameservers = lib.mkDefault [ vars.domainControllerIp ];
security = {
ipa = {
enable = true;
domain = vars.homeDomain;
inherit realm;
server = vars.ipaServer;
certificate = caCertPkg;
inherit basedn;
ipaHostname = fqdn;
offlinePasswords = true;
cacheCredentials = true;
};
# Create the home directory on first login if it doesn't exist yet.
# IPA users have no pre-created home on the host; without this sshd
# opens a session to a non-existent directory and resets the connection.
# lightdm also needs this so the GUI login path can create the home dir
# if it was not pre-seeded by the tmpfiles rule above (e.g. on first boot
# before SSSD has resolved the user).
pam.services = {
sshd.makeHomeDir = true;
lightdm.makeHomeDir = true;
# pam_unix returns PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL without prompting when the local
# stub has "!" in shadow (account locked), so PAM_AUTHTOK is never set
# and pam_sss's use_first_pass fails with "No authentication token".
# Changing to try_first_pass makes pam_sss prompt independently when no
# prior module has set the token, restoring IPA password login via
# LightDM and su.
login.rules.auth.sss.settings = lib.mkForce { try_first_pass = true; };
su.rules.auth.sss.settings = lib.mkForce { try_first_pass = true; };
};
# HM with useUserPackages = true (flake.nix) sets users.users.${ipaUser}.packages,
# which forces the stub into /etc/passwd. pam_sss.so with the "localusers" flag
# (added by NixOS when SSSD is enabled) then skips SSSD for any user it finds in
# local /etc/passwd — including this stub — falling through to pam_unix, which has
# no password for the stub → sudo auth always fails.
#
# Fix: NOPASSWD for the IPA user. The IPA user already authenticated to reach a
# shell (SSH public key from IPA or Kerberos), so re-prompting via a broken PAM
# path is security theater on a single-admin homelab.
sudo.extraRules = [{
users = [ vars.ipaUser ];
commands = [{ command = "ALL"; options = [ "NOPASSWD" ]; }];
}];
};
systemd = {
# Fetch SSH public keys from IPA so users can log in with the key stored
# in their IPA profile rather than needing ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on every
# host. sss_ssh_authorizedkeys queries SSSD (which queries IPA LDAP).
#
# /nix/store is 1775 (group-writable by nixbld). OpenSSH 10.0+ rejects
# AuthorizedKeysCommand binaries whose path contains any group-writable
# component, silently skipping the command. Copy to /usr/local/bin (all
# components root-owned, 755) so the path passes sshd's safety check.
tmpfiles.rules = [
"d /usr/local 0755 root root - -"
"d /usr/local/bin 0755 root root - -"
"C+ /usr/local/bin/sss_ssh_authorizedkeys 0555 root root - ${pkgs.sssd}/bin/sss_ssh_authorizedkeys"
# Pre-create the IPA user's home dir so Home Manager activation succeeds
# even before their first login. On a fresh system SSSD may not have
# resolved the user yet — tmpfiles warns and skips in that case (non-fatal),
# and pam_mkhomedir covers the first-login path as a fallback.
"d /home/${vars.ipaUser} 0700 ${vars.ipaUser} ${vars.ipaUser} - -"
];
# security.ipa enables Kerberos (security.krb5) which causes systemd to
# start auth-rpcgss-module.service and rpc-gssd.service for Kerberos NFS
# authentication. LXC containers can't load the auth_rpcgss kernel module
# and don't have /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs, so both services fail.
#
# The NixOS IPA module already adds a drop-in for auth-rpcgss-module.service
# with ConditionPathExists=/etc/krb5.keytab. We use lib.mkForce to win the
# text conflict and add ConditionVirtualization=!container alongside it so
# the service is skipped (not failed) in containers that do have a keytab.
# Same fix for rpc-gssd.service which also fails in containers.
units = lib.mkIf config.boot.isContainer {
"auth-rpcgss-module.service" = {
overrideStrategy = "asDropinIfExists";
text = lib.mkForce ''
[Unit]
ConditionPathExists=
ConditionPathExists=/etc/krb5.keytab
ConditionVirtualization=!container
'';
};
# rpc-gssd also has ConditionPathExists from the NixOS IPA module (and an
# X-Restart-Triggers store path from systemd.nix). Use mkForce to win;
# omit X-Restart-Triggers since this service is skipped in containers anyway.
"rpc-gssd.service" = {
overrideStrategy = "asDropinIfExists";
text = lib.mkForce ''
[Unit]
ConditionPathExists=
ConditionPathExists=/etc/krb5.keytab
ConditionVirtualization=!container
'';
};
};
# home-manager-<user>.service fails on first enrollment because /home/wayne
# doesn't exist until the user's first login (pam_mkhomedir creates it then).
# ConditionPathExists makes systemd skip the service (exit 0, condition not
# met) instead of failing. After first login the dir exists and subsequent
# rebuilds activate HM normally.
services."home-manager-${vars.ipaUser}".unitConfig.ConditionPathExists =
"/home/${vars.ipaUser}";
};
services.openssh.extraConfig = ''
AuthorizedKeysCommand /usr/local/bin/sss_ssh_authorizedkeys %u
AuthorizedKeysCommandUser nobody
'';
# Host keytab: pre-provisioned on the IPA server, sops-encrypted binary.
# Placed at /etc/krb5.keytab before SSSD starts so the host authenticates
# to IPA without running ipa-client-install.
sops.secrets."ipa-host-keytab" = {
sopsFile = keytabPath;
format = "binary";
path = "/etc/krb5.keytab";
owner = "root";
group = "root";
mode = "0600";
restartUnits = [ "sssd.service" ];
};
# NixOS requires isNormalUser/isSystemUser + group on any entry in
# users.users. HM with useUserPackages = true (set in flake.nix) adds a stub
# entry for each HM user so it can install packages to
# /etc/profiles/per-user/<name>/. This definition satisfies those assertions.
# With security.ipa setting "passwd: sss files" in nsswitch, SSSD's IPA entry
# takes priority for NSS lookups — this local stub is only a fallback when
# SSSD is unreachable (at which point auth fails anyway).
users.users.${vars.ipaUser} = {
isNormalUser = true;
group = "users";
extraGroups = [ "wheel" ];
createHome = false;
# "!" is not a password hash — it is the standard "account locked" marker.
# It cannot authenticate anyone locally. It exists solely so NixOS generates
# a shadow entry for this stub user; without one pam_unix returns
# PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL before prompting, which means PAM_AUTHTOK is never
# set and the subsequent pam_sss use_first_pass call has nothing to work
# with — blocking LightDM and su logins even when IPA/SSSD auth succeeds.
hashedPassword = "!";
};
# Home Manager config for the IPA primary user, applied on every enrolled
# host. Manages what IPA doesn't: dotfiles, user-scoped packages, session
# variables. Switch-nix/Test-nix/buildImage are system-wide (configuration.nix)
# so they don't need to be repeated here.
#
# homeDirectory uses mkForce because HM's NixOS integration module sets it to
# "/var/empty" for users not found in config.users.users at eval time (SSSD
# users aren't visible there).
home-manager.users.${vars.ipaUser} = { pkgs, ... }: {
home = {
username = vars.ipaUser;
homeDirectory = lib.mkForce "/home/${vars.ipaUser}";
stateVersion = "26.05";
packages = with pkgs; [ tmux sshfs ];
sessionVariables.EDITOR = "nano";
};
programs.home-manager.enable = true;
programs.bash.enable = true;
};
}