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mit-krb5 default plugins broken?#74

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@coyhile
coyhile
opened on Jan 26, 2018

Trying to bootstrap an MIT KDC based on mit-krb5-1.14.6, one sees the following behavior:

[root@krbtest ~]# kdb5_util create
Loading random data
Initializing database '/var/krb5kdc/principal' for realm 'LOCAL',
master key name 'K/M@LOCAL'
You will be prompted for the database Master Password.
It is important that you NOT FORGET this password.
Enter KDC database master key:
Re-enter KDC database master key to verify:
kdb5_util: Unable to load requested database module 'db2': plugin symbol 'kdb_function_table' not found while creating database '/var/krb5kdc/principal'
[root@krbtest ~]#

Looking further, we see from truss (in relevant part):

93041:  ioctl(3, TCSETS, 0xFFFFBF7FFFDFF900)            = 0
93041:  sigaction(SIGINT, 0xFFFFBF7FFFDFF7E0, 0x00000000) = 0
93041:  close(3)                                        = 0
93041:  time()                                          = 1516974864
93041:  stat("/etc/krb5.conf", 0xFFFFBF7FFFDFF670)      = 0
93041:  time()                                          = 1516974864
93041:  time()                                          = 1516974864
93041:  stat("/opt/local/lib/krb5/plugins/kdb/db2", 0xFFFFBF7FFFDFF770) Err#2 ENOENT
93041:  open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/SUNW_OST_OSLIB.mo", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
93041:  stat("/opt/local/lib/krb5/plugins/kdb/db2.so", 0xFFFFBF7FFFDFF770) Err#2 ENOENT
93041:  fstat(2, 0xFFFFBF7FFFDFE520)                    = 0
kdb5_util93041: write(2, " k d b 5 _ u t i l", 9)               = 9
: 93041:        write(2, " :  ", 2)                             = 2
Unable to load requested database module 'db2': plugin symbol 'kdb_function_table' not found93041:      write(2, " U n a b l e   t o   l o".., 92)      = 92
 93041: write(2, "  ", 1)                               = 1
while creating database '93041: write(2, " w h i l e   c r e a t i".., 25)      = 25
/var/krb5kdc/principal93041:    write(2, " / v a r / k r b 5 k d c".., 22)      = 22

And looking at the directory called out there, we see

[root@krbtest ~]# ls /opt/local/lib/krb5/plugins/kdb/
libdb2.la  libdb2.so
[root@krbtest ~]#

Creating a symlink allows the operation to complete successfully:

[root@krbtest ~]# ln -s /opt/local/lib/krb5/plugins/kdb/libdb2.so /opt/local/lib/krb5/plugins/kdb/db2.so
[root@krbtest ~]#  kdb5_util create
Loading random data
Initializing database '/var/krb5kdc/principal' for realm 'LOCAL',
master key name 'K/M@LOCAL'
You will be prompted for the database Master Password.
It is important that you NOT FORGET this password.
Enter KDC database master key:
Re-enter KDC database master key to verify:
[root@krbtest ~]#

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  1. coyhile commented on Jan 26, 2018

    @coyhile
    coyhile
    on Jan 26, 2018
    Author

    The container where I was testing is [email protected]. I'll see if I can repro with the previous LTS image. ETA: same behavior with [email protected]

  2. coyhile commented on Jan 26, 2018

    @coyhile
    coyhile
    on Jan 26, 2018
    Author

    I built this outside the pkgsrc framework by hand, and I do not see the behavior there. In fact, the output of the default generated Makefile from configure yields lib/krb5/plugins/kdb/db2.so.

    Is it this that causes the problems here?

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  4. mamash commented on Feb 1, 2018

    @mamash
    mamash
    on Feb 1, 2018

    Not just that single patch, but the entire patch set that injects support for pkgsrc libtool, likely. That's something that's usually desirable, because a central sanctioned libtool helps avoid all kinds of peculiar problems that different upstreams may suffer from. I'll investigate.

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  9. sjorge commented on Sep 23, 2018

    @sjorge
    sjorge
    on Sep 23, 2018

    I also hit this bug while trying to setup a quick test kdc

    Loading random data
Initializing database '/var/krb5kdc/principal' for realm 'ACHERON.BE',
master key name 'K/[email protected]'
You will be prompted for the database Master Password.
It is important that you NOT FORGET this password.
Enter KDC database master key:
Re-enter KDC database master key to verify:
kdb5_util: Unable to load requested database module 'db2': plugin symbol 'kdb_function_table' not found while creating database '/var/krb5kdc/principal'```

The service to start the kdc and kadmind are also missing from the mit-krb5 package.
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