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bambuddy/backend/app/services/ldap_service.py
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maziggy 5efbd353ed Survive a directory that defines no posixGroup class (#2769)
Every LDAP user on an lldap directory was rejected with "Incorrect
username or password", on an install where Test Connection passed and
where the same bind DN, filter and group membership all checked out
under ldapsearch. The directory never saw the request.

_extract_user_info searches for POSIX groups alongside the memberOf
ones, and both of those filters name the posixGroup object class. ldap3
fetches the schema at connect time (get_info=ALL) and validates class
names in a filter against it while building the request, raising
LDAPObjectClassError before anything is sent. lldap marks every account
it creates as posixAccount -- which is what makes us look for POSIX
groups at all -- but defines no group class beyond groupOfNames. The
exception escaped authenticate_ldap_user, and the login route reports
any LDAP failure as bad credentials.

A directory with no posixGroup class has no posixGroup entries, which is
exactly the answer those searches would have returned. Catch it, log it
once, and carry on with the memberOf groups collected above. Both
searches sit inside the one try: they name the same class, so once one
is rejected the other cannot succeed, and attempting it would only
produce a second identical exception to swallow.

Not a regression from 848f55810. The memberUid filter has named the
class since b6599dd41 and runs for every user whether or not they have a
gidNumber, so a directory of this shape has never been able to log in;
the primary-group lookup only added a second trigger. Test Connection
was unaffected throughout because (objectClass=*) is a presence filter
and never reaches the value validator.

The mock connection gained a hook that raises on a filter substring,
standing in for that client-side validation. Reset in the fixture and
default None, so existing tests are unchanged.
2026-08-05 11:14:57 +02:00

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"""LDAP authentication service for BamBuddy (#794).
Supports:
- LDAP bind authentication (simple bind with user's credentials)
- StartTLS, LDAPS, and plaintext connections
- User search with configurable filter
- Group membership resolution for role mapping
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import logging
from dataclasses import dataclass
from ldap3 import ALL, SUBTREE, Connection, Server, Tls
from ldap3.core.exceptions import LDAPObjectClassError
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@dataclass
class LDAPUserInfo:
"""User information retrieved from LDAP after successful authentication."""
username: str
email: str | None
display_name: str | None
groups: list[str] # List of group DNs the user belongs to
@dataclass
class LDAPSearchResult:
"""A directory user returned by the admin search endpoint (no auth performed)."""
username: str
email: str | None
display_name: str | None
dn: str
@dataclass
class LDAPConfig:
"""LDAP configuration parsed from settings."""
server_url: str
bind_dn: str
bind_password: str
search_base: str
user_filter: str # e.g. "(sAMAccountName={username})"
security: str # "none", "starttls", "ldaps"
group_mapping: dict[str, str] # LDAP group DN -> BamBuddy group name
auto_provision: bool
ca_cert_path: str # Path to CA certificate file (empty = skip verification)
default_group: str # Fallback BamBuddy group assigned when user has no mapped groups (empty = no fallback)
def parse_ldap_config(settings: dict[str, str]) -> LDAPConfig | None:
"""Parse LDAP config from settings key-value pairs. Returns None if LDAP not enabled."""
if settings.get("ldap_enabled", "false").lower() != "true":
return None
server_url = settings.get("ldap_server_url", "").strip()
if not server_url:
return None
group_mapping_raw = settings.get("ldap_group_mapping", "")
try:
group_mapping = json.loads(group_mapping_raw) if group_mapping_raw else {}
except json.JSONDecodeError:
group_mapping = {}
return LDAPConfig(
server_url=server_url,
bind_dn=settings.get("ldap_bind_dn", "").strip(),
bind_password=settings.get("ldap_bind_password", ""),
search_base=settings.get("ldap_search_base", "").strip(),
user_filter=settings.get("ldap_user_filter", "(sAMAccountName={username})").strip(),
security=settings.get("ldap_security", "starttls").strip(),
group_mapping=group_mapping if isinstance(group_mapping, dict) else {},
auto_provision=settings.get("ldap_auto_provision", "false").lower() == "true",
ca_cert_path=settings.get("ldap_ca_cert_path", "").strip(),
default_group=settings.get("ldap_default_group", "").strip(),
)
def _create_server(config: LDAPConfig) -> Server:
"""Create an ldap3 Server instance from config.
Always uses TLS — either LDAPS (TLS from start) or StartTLS (upgrade after connect).
Plaintext LDAP is not supported.
"""
import ssl
use_ssl = config.security == "ldaps" or config.server_url.startswith("ldaps://")
if config.ca_cert_path:
tls = Tls(validate=ssl.CERT_REQUIRED, ca_certs_file=config.ca_cert_path)
else:
tls = Tls(validate=ssl.CERT_NONE)
return Server(config.server_url, use_ssl=use_ssl, tls=tls, get_info=ALL, connect_timeout=10)
def _open_service_connection(config: LDAPConfig, server: Server, *, check_names: bool = True) -> Connection:
"""Open and bind a service-account LDAP connection. Raises on failure.
`check_names` toggles ldap3's client-side attribute-name validation. The
default keeps it on so typos in `user_filter` fail loudly. The fuzzy
directory search disables it because its fixed OR filter spans both AD-only
(sAMAccountName, displayName) and OpenLDAP-only attribute names — without
this bypass ldap3 throws `LDAPAttributeError` before any request is sent
on a directory whose schema doesn't define one of the names.
"""
conn = Connection(
server,
user=config.bind_dn,
password=config.bind_password,
auto_bind=False,
raise_exceptions=True,
read_only=True,
check_names=check_names,
)
conn.open()
if config.security == "starttls" and not config.server_url.startswith("ldaps://"):
conn.start_tls()
conn.bind()
return conn
def _pick_canonical_username(entry, fallback: str) -> str:
"""Prefer sAMAccountName, then uid, then the supplied fallback."""
if hasattr(entry, "sAMAccountName") and entry.sAMAccountName:
return str(entry.sAMAccountName)
if hasattr(entry, "uid") and entry.uid:
return str(entry.uid)
return fallback
def _extract_user_info(
service_conn: Connection, config: LDAPConfig, user_entry, fallback_username: str
) -> LDAPUserInfo:
"""Build an LDAPUserInfo from an already-fetched directory entry.
Collects memberOf groups, POSIX memberUid groups, and the primary
gidNumber group; dedups DNs case-insensitively. Uses the supplied
service-bound connection to resolve POSIX groups.
"""
email = str(user_entry.mail) if hasattr(user_entry, "mail") and user_entry.mail else None
display_name = (
str(user_entry.displayName) if hasattr(user_entry, "displayName") and user_entry.displayName else None
)
# Collect groups from memberOf attribute (Active Directory / groupOfNames)
groups = [str(g) for g in user_entry.memberOf] if hasattr(user_entry, "memberOf") and user_entry.memberOf else []
canonical_username = _pick_canonical_username(user_entry, fallback_username)
# Also search for POSIX groups, both the memberUid kind and the primary
# gidNumber kind. Both filters name the posixGroup object class, and ldap3
# validates that name against the schema it fetched at connect time
# (get_info=ALL) before it builds the request — so on a directory that
# publishes a schema without posixGroup it raises client-side and nothing is
# ever sent. A directory with no posixGroup class has no posixGroup entries,
# which is exactly the answer the searches would have returned, so the
# correct response is to carry on with the memberOf groups collected above.
#
# Left uncaught, that exception escaped authenticate_ldap_user, and the login
# route reports any LDAP error as "Incorrect username or password" — so an
# lldap user, whose accounts carry posixAccount but whose directory defines
# no group classes beyond groupOfNames, could never log in and had nothing
# but a wrong-password message to go on (#2769). This predates the primary
# gidNumber lookup: the memberUid filter has named the class since #794.
try:
posix_filter = f"(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(memberUid={_ldap_escape(canonical_username)}))"
service_conn.search(
search_base=config.search_base,
search_filter=posix_filter,
search_scope=SUBTREE,
attributes=["cn"],
)
for entry in service_conn.entries:
groups.append(str(entry.entry_dn))
# POSIX primary group: user's gidNumber matches a posixGroup's gidNumber.
# Standard Unix semantics treat this as full group membership, so we need
# to resolve it to a group DN alongside the memberUid results.
if hasattr(user_entry, "gidNumber") and user_entry.gidNumber:
primary_gid = str(user_entry.gidNumber)
primary_filter = f"(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(gidNumber={_ldap_escape(primary_gid)}))"
service_conn.search(
search_base=config.search_base,
search_filter=primary_filter,
search_scope=SUBTREE,
attributes=["cn"],
)
for entry in service_conn.entries:
groups.append(str(entry.entry_dn))
except LDAPObjectClassError:
# Logged once per authentication, at info: it is the explanation for a
# user's POSIX groups being absent from their mapping, and it is not an
# error the operator can or should act on.
logger.info(
"Directory publishes no posixGroup object class; skipping POSIX group lookup "
"(memberOf groups are unaffected)"
)
# Dedupe group DNs (user may be in a group via both memberUid and primary gidNumber).
# Case-insensitive comparison — LDAP DNs are case-insensitive by spec.
seen_lower: set[str] = set()
deduped_groups: list[str] = []
for g in groups:
key = g.lower()
if key not in seen_lower:
seen_lower.add(key)
deduped_groups.append(g)
return LDAPUserInfo(
username=canonical_username,
email=email,
display_name=display_name,
groups=deduped_groups,
)
def authenticate_ldap_user(config: LDAPConfig, username: str, password: str) -> LDAPUserInfo | None:
"""Authenticate a user via LDAP bind.
1. Bind with service account to search for the user DN
2. Attempt bind with the user's DN and provided password
3. On success, retrieve user attributes and group memberships
Returns LDAPUserInfo on success, None on failure.
"""
if not password:
return None
server = _create_server(config)
try:
service_conn = _open_service_connection(config, server)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("LDAP service account bind failed: %s", e)
return None
try:
# Search for the user
search_filter = config.user_filter.replace("{username}", _ldap_escape(username))
service_conn.search(
search_base=config.search_base,
search_filter=search_filter,
search_scope=SUBTREE,
attributes=["*"],
)
if not service_conn.entries:
logger.info("LDAP user not found: %s", username)
return None
user_entry = service_conn.entries[0]
user_dn = str(user_entry.entry_dn)
# Step 2: Bind as the user to verify password
try:
user_conn = Connection(
server,
user=user_dn,
password=password,
auto_bind=False,
raise_exceptions=True,
read_only=True,
)
user_conn.open()
if config.security == "starttls" and not config.server_url.startswith("ldaps://"):
user_conn.start_tls()
user_conn.bind()
user_conn.unbind()
except Exception as e:
logger.info("LDAP bind failed for user %s: %s", username, e)
return None
info = _extract_user_info(service_conn, config, user_entry, username)
# Don't log the raw DN — its leaf CN is the user's real name (PII, #2681).
# The username + group count is enough to confirm a successful auth; the
# support-bundle sanitizer also redacts any DN that slips through (e.g. an
# ldap3 exception string), but keeping it out of the log at the source is
# the primary hygiene per the "no private data in logs" rule.
logger.info(
"LDAP authentication successful for user: %s (groups: %d)",
info.username,
len(info.groups),
)
return info
finally:
service_conn.unbind()
def lookup_ldap_user(config: LDAPConfig, username: str) -> LDAPUserInfo | None:
"""Look up a directory user by exact username via the service-account bind.
Performs no password verification — intended for the admin manual-provision
flow, where the caller has already been authenticated as a BamBuddy admin
and now needs the directory attributes (email, display name, group DNs)
to create the user.
Uses the same `user_filter` template that the login path uses, so anything
that logs in successfully via auto-provision is also resolvable here.
"""
server = _create_server(config)
try:
service_conn = _open_service_connection(config, server)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("LDAP service account bind failed during lookup: %s", e)
raise
try:
search_filter = config.user_filter.replace("{username}", _ldap_escape(username))
service_conn.search(
search_base=config.search_base,
search_filter=search_filter,
search_scope=SUBTREE,
attributes=["*"],
)
if not service_conn.entries:
logger.info("LDAP lookup: user not found: %s", username)
return None
return _extract_user_info(service_conn, config, service_conn.entries[0], username)
finally:
service_conn.unbind()
def search_ldap_users(config: LDAPConfig, query: str, limit: int = 25) -> list[LDAPSearchResult]:
"""Fuzzy search the directory for users matching `query`.
Uses a fixed OR filter across sAMAccountName, uid, mail, displayName, and
cn — covering both Active Directory and OpenLDAP layouts. The query is
RFC-4515 escaped so a typed `*` doesn't enumerate the whole directory.
Returns up to `limit` results (default 25). Service-bind failures raise so
the caller can surface a 503; "no matches" returns an empty list.
Callers should enforce a minimum query length (≥2 chars) — short queries
against a large directory are wasteful and effectively unbounded.
"""
query = query.strip()
if len(query) < 2:
return []
escaped = _ldap_escape(query)
search_filter = (
f"(|(sAMAccountName=*{escaped}*)(uid=*{escaped}*)(mail=*{escaped}*)(displayName=*{escaped}*)(cn=*{escaped}*))"
)
server = _create_server(config)
try:
# check_names=False so OpenLDAP directories (no sAMAccountName/displayName
# in schema) don't reject the cross-schema OR filter — see helper docstring.
service_conn = _open_service_connection(config, server, check_names=False)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("LDAP service account bind failed during search: %s", e)
raise
try:
# attributes=["*"] requests all user attributes. We can't enumerate the
# AD/OpenLDAP-specific names (sAMAccountName, displayName) explicitly
# because ldap3 validates the attribute list against the server schema
# even with check_names=False — and OpenLDAP rejects the AD names. The
# `*` wildcard is hardcoded in ldap3's ATTRIBUTES_EXCLUDED_FROM_CHECK so
# it bypasses that validation, and the server returns whatever it has.
service_conn.search(
search_base=config.search_base,
search_filter=search_filter,
search_scope=SUBTREE,
attributes=["*"],
size_limit=limit,
)
results: list[LDAPSearchResult] = []
for entry in service_conn.entries:
username = _pick_canonical_username(entry, "")
if not username and hasattr(entry, "cn") and entry.cn:
# Last resort — some OpenLDAP layouts only have cn
username = str(entry.cn)
if not username:
continue
email = str(entry.mail) if hasattr(entry, "mail") and entry.mail else None
display_name = str(entry.displayName) if hasattr(entry, "displayName") and entry.displayName else None
results.append(
LDAPSearchResult(
username=username,
email=email,
display_name=display_name,
dn=str(entry.entry_dn),
)
)
logger.info("LDAP directory search for %r returned %d result(s)", query, len(results))
return results
finally:
service_conn.unbind()
def resolve_group_mapping(ldap_groups: list[str], group_mapping: dict[str, str]) -> list[str]:
"""Map LDAP group DNs to BamBuddy group names.
Returns list of BamBuddy group names that the user should be added to.
Comparison is case-insensitive on the LDAP group DN.
"""
if not group_mapping:
return []
# Build case-insensitive lookup
mapping_lower = {k.lower(): v for k, v in group_mapping.items()}
result = []
for ldap_group in ldap_groups:
bambuddy_group = mapping_lower.get(ldap_group.lower())
if bambuddy_group:
result.append(bambuddy_group)
return result
def test_ldap_connection(config: LDAPConfig) -> tuple[bool, str]:
"""Test LDAP connection and service account bind.
Returns (success, message).
"""
try:
server = _create_server(config)
conn = Connection(
server,
user=config.bind_dn,
password=config.bind_password,
auto_bind=False,
raise_exceptions=True,
read_only=True,
)
conn.open()
if config.security == "starttls" and not config.server_url.startswith("ldaps://"):
conn.start_tls()
conn.bind()
# Try a search to verify search base
conn.search(
search_base=config.search_base,
search_filter="(objectClass=*)",
search_scope=SUBTREE,
size_limit=1,
)
conn.unbind()
return True, "LDAP connection successful"
except Exception as e:
return False, f"LDAP connection failed: {e}"
def _ldap_escape(value: str) -> str:
"""Escape special characters in LDAP search filter values (RFC 4515)."""
replacements = {
"\\": "\\5c",
"*": "\\2a",
"(": "\\28",
")": "\\29",
"\x00": "\\00",
}
for char, escaped in replacements.items():
value = value.replace(char, escaped)
return value