Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed (View Workflow)
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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10.4.6
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None
Description
In MariaDB 10.4, version 2 of the pam plugin is provided. Unfortunately, password authentication seems to be completely broken in version 2. See MDEV-19878 about that.
Luckily, version 1 of the pam plugin is also included. It is possible to install that version by doing the following:
UNINSTALL SONAME 'auth_pam';
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INSTALL SONAME 'auth_pam_v1';
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Unfortunately, password authentication also seems to be completely broken in version 2 in MariaDB 10.4.
To reproduce, simply do the following:
Create a Unix user account and set a password for the user:
sudo useradd alice
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sudo passwd alice
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Create the PAM service configuration:
sudo tee /etc/pam.d/mariadb <<EOF
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auth required pam_unix.so audit
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account required pam_unix.so audit
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EOF
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Then in MariaDB, install the plugin:
INSTALL SONAME 'auth_pam_v1';
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And then create the user account:
CREATE USER 'alice'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED VIA pam USING 'mariadb';
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And then you need to do the /etc/shadow workaround for pam_unix:
sudo groupadd shadow
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sudo usermod -a -G shadow mysql
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sudo chown root:shadow /etc/shadow
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sudo chmod g+r /etc/shadow
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And then restart MariaDB:
sudo systemctl restart mariadb
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And then, try to authenticate as the Unix account (while using the workaround for MDEV-19807):
$ mysql -u alice --plugin-dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin
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ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'alice'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
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The client does not even seem to be prompting for a password.
The pam v1 plugin should properly pass the password to pam_unix, but the syslog shows that the password doesn't work, even though it is correct:
Jun 28 01:58:14 ip-172-30-0-123 unix_chkpwd[7504]: password check failed for user (alice)
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Jun 28 01:58:14 ip-172-30-0-123 mysqld: pam_unix(mariadb:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=997 euid=997 tty= ruser= rhost= user=alice
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The strace output of the client connection/PAM plugin thread seems to show that the plugin is passing an empty string to the unix_chkpwd process:
pipe([48, 49]) = 0
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rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f523423e5d0}, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
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clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f521c0d29d0) = 7504
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write(49, "", 0) = 0
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write(49, "\0", 1) = 1
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close(48) = 0
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close(49) = 0
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wait4(7504, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 7}], 0, NULL) = 7504
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--- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=7504, si_uid=997, si_status=7, si_utime=1, si_stime=1} ---
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rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f523423e5d0}, NULL, 8) = 0
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ioctl(0, TCGETS, 0x7f521c0cddb0) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
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getuid() = 997
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geteuid() = 997
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socket(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_DGRAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0) = 48
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connect(48, {sa_family=AF_LOCAL, sun_path="/dev/log"}, 110) = 0
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sendto(48, "<85>Jun 28 01:58:14 mysqld: pam_unix(mariadb:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=997 euid=997 tty= ruser= rhost= user=alice", 132, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 132
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The strace output of the unix_chkpwd process confirms that it received the empty string as the password from stdin:
getuid() = 997
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setuid(997) = 0
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read(0, "\0", 513) = 1
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open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
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I wanted to try testing how it worked if I provided the password on the command line. Even that fails:
$ mysql -u alice --plugin-dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin -palicemariadb
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ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'alice'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
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And the strace output for that does show that the client connection received the proper password:
recvfrom(47, "\270\0\0\1", 4, MSG_DONTWAIT, NULL, NULL) = 4
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recvfrom(47, "\204\246\337 \0\0\0\1!\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\7\0\0\0alice\0\24\206\212\215\1*\252\262H\27K\256,\201\376\236B{\3279pmysql_native_password\0f\3_os\5Linux\f_client_name\nlibmariadb\4_pid\0047576\17_client_version\0053.1.2\t_platform\6x86_64\fprogram_name\5mysql", 184, MSG_DONTWAIT, NULL, NULL) = 184
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sendto(47, "\10\0\0\2\376dialog\0", 12, MSG_DONTWAIT, NULL, 0) = 12
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recvfrom(47, "\r\0\0\3", 4, MSG_DONTWAIT, NULL, NULL) = 4
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recvfrom(47, "alicemariadb\0", 13, MSG_DONTWAIT, NULL, NULL) = 13
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But it looks to me like it's still passing the empty string as the password to the unix_chkpwd process:
pipe([48, 49]) = 0
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rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fbd8d65b5d0}, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
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clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7fbd740c29d0) = 7578
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write(49, "", 0) = 0
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write(49, "\0", 1) = 1
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close(48) = 0
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close(49) = 0
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wait4(7578, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 7}], 0, NULL) = 7578
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--- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=7578, si_uid=997, si_status=7, si_utime=1, si_stime=2} ---
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rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fbd8d65b5d0}, NULL, 8) = 0
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ioctl(0, TCGETS, 0x7fbd740bddb0) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
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getuid() = 997
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geteuid() = 997
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socket(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_DGRAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0) = 48
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connect(48, {sa_family=AF_LOCAL, sun_path="/dev/log"}, 110) = 0
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sendto(48, "<85>Jun 28 02:13:59 mysqld: pam_unix(mariadb:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=997 euid=997 tty= ruser= rhost= user=alice", 132, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 132
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And the strace output of the unix_chkpwd process seems to confirm that it is still reading the empty string from stdin:
getuid() = 997
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setuid(997) = 0
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read(0, "\0", 513) = 1
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open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
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MDEV-7032 new pam plugin with a suid wrapper
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