Chapter 2. Configure Red Hat Identity Management

Although IdM allows anonymous binds, some information is withheld for security reasons. Some of this information withheld during anonymous binds is essential for RH-SSO user federation; consequently, RH-SSO will need to bind to the IdM LDAP server with enough privileges to successfully query the required information. As a result, you will need to create a dedicated service account for RH-SSO in IdM. IdM does not natively provide a command to do this, but you can use the ldapmodify command. For example:

ldap_url="ldaps://$FED_IPA_HOST"
dir_mgr_dn="cn=Directory Manager"
service_name="rhsso"
service_dn="uid=$service_name,cn=sysaccounts,cn=etc,$FED_IPA_BASE_DN"

$ ldapmodify -H "$ldap_url" -x -D "$dir_mgr_dn" -w "$FED_IPA_ADMIN_PASSWD" <<EOF
dn: $service_dn
changetype: add
objectclass: account
objectclass: simplesecurityobject
uid: $service_name
userPassword: $FED_IPA_RHSSO_SERVICE_PASSWD
passwordExpirationTime: 20380119031407Z
nsIdleTimeout: 0

EOF

$ ./configure-federation create-ipa-service-account

You will also need a test user account in IdM. You can either use an existing user or create a new one; the examples in this guide use "John Doe" with a uid of jdoe. You can create the jdoe user in IdM:

$ ipa user-add --first John --last Doe --email jdoe@example.com jdoe

Assign a password to the user:

$ ipa passwd jdoe

Create the openstack-users group in IdM.