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LDAP and user authentication/authorization

L1 Bithead

Hi all!

I have a problem using LDAP for user/management authentication/authorization. When I try to log in via my domain I get the following in my log (after logging in again with the admin account):

Authorization failed for user *\*via Web from *.*.*.* : Invalid user 06/06 12:41:19

User '*\*' authenticated. Profile authProfileAdmins in an authentication sequence AuthSeqDomainAdmins succeeded. From: *.*.*.*.

Any suggestions?

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Please follow the configuration steps provided in the following document: https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-1989

Unless the username you are using to login is 'AllowDomainAdmins', there is a misconfiguration.

As outlined in the document, it is required to create a Device -> Administrator account for each AD account that will be used.

Hope this helps!

- Stefan

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L4 Transporter

Please check the authentication profile and Authentication sequence. Are you referring to the correct profile for authentication. The empty spaces indicate that it is having trouble with the authentication profile

Hi and thanks for the reply. Please see attached pictures of my current

setup. The LDAP has contact with the server, so this is not the problem...

Best Regards/Vennlig Hilsen,

Kåre Tragethon

IT & Automasjon

Hallingplast AS

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Could it be the classical mistake of using "domain.local" instead of just the netbios name "domain"?

Described in https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/thread/5050?tstart=0

Thanks but that didn't help. By the way, I'm only using LDAP (no user

agent)..... I could also mention that I'm only trying to access the

Management Interface at the moment. Could that be a problem?? Do I have to

create any security rules to allow access?

I dont know if you can setup security rules for the management interface (if you use the physical mgmt int) - however you would need to do so if you have service rerouted your traffic to use a dataplane interface.

Please follow the configuration steps provided in the following document: https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-1989

Unless the username you are using to login is 'AllowDomainAdmins', there is a misconfiguration.

As outlined in the document, it is required to create a Device -> Administrator account for each AD account that will be used.

Hope this helps!

- Stefan

In the Bind DN example, "CN=ldap,CN=users,DC=plano2003,DC=com", I'm a little confuse what to replace for CN=ldap and CN=users.

CN=ldap (should I replace with the OU of my Active Directory?)

CN=users (should I replace with the username?)

In the Bind DN example, a user named 'ldap' has been created inside of the 'CN=users,DC=plano2003,DC=com' container.

Another example of this is if you were to use the built-in 'Administrator' account. The equivalent would be:

CN=administator,CN=users,DC=plano2003,DC=com

Please know, a more simple way to specifiy the Bind DN is set username@domain. Here are some examples showing two different DN formats that are equivalent.

CN=paloalto,OU=firewalls,OU=network,DC=plano2003,DC=com

paloalto@plano2003.com

CN=ldap,CN=users,DC=plano2003,DC=com

ldap@plano2003.com

CN=administator,CN=users,DC=plano2003,DC=com

administrator@plano2003.com

Attached is example screenshot.

- Stefan

The document is based on:

Root OU being  Plano.2003.com

ldap is contained in Users, under Plano.2003.com. The corresponding Bind DN is going to be CN=ldap,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com.

Please refer to the https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-2910.

Also try authentication removing the filtered Allow List.Most probably the user in question is not authorized the query the OU.

Regards,

Ameya


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