Permission denied when trying to setup LDAP Auth

jby · January 17, 2020, 11:47am

When I try to setup LDAP-authentication I get Permission Denied

But it’s extremely strange, it says Permission Denied, but no traffic is going out of the host.

I can connect to the LDAP server on the configured port using telnet from the host, but if I run tcpdump when trying to connect using the Foreman webgui - there’s no network traffic leaving the host at all…

jby · January 17, 2020, 12:26pm

And in the log file (/var/log/foreman/production.log) I get:
2020-01-17T12:24:48 [W|app|36f54551] Failed to connect to LDAP server
which doesn’t help that much in troubleshooting this…

tbrisker · January 19, 2020, 1:06pm

Perhaps you have selinux blocking foreman from opening the connection?

jby · January 19, 2020, 4:05pm

I’ll look at that when back in the office tomorrow, thanks for the tip! It always trips me up now that I don’t work with Linux permanently.

jby · January 20, 2020, 10:23am

Of course it was SELinux that was the culprit in my case…