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Startup warning when both saslauthd and native LDAP are configured

    • Type: Icon: Improvement Improvement
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
    • 4.4.0-rc2
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    • Security 2020-04-20

      Currently customers can create config like the following:

      { 
        ....
         security: { 
           authorization: "enabled", 
           clusterAuthMode: "x509", 
           ldap: { 
             authz: { queryTemplate: "{USER}?memberOf?base" }, 
             bind: { method: "simple", queryPassword: "<password>", queryUser: "ldapuser@intranet.....com" }, 
             servers: "ldapad.....", 
             transportSecurity: "tls", 
             userToDNMapping: ...
      ldapQuery:  ...
            sasl: { serviceName: "myKerbService" } }, 
            setParameter: { 
               authenticationMechanisms: "GSSAPI,PLAIN", 
                saslServiceName: "myKerbService", saslauthdPath: "/var/run/saslauthd/mux" }, 
            ...
         
      

      In the above both saslauthdPath and security.ldap.servers are configured although only one can be used when the application requests LDAP authentication.

      There should be:

      1. A startup warning that conflicting parameters are specified
      2. A log line explicitly stating which LDAP method will be used for authentication

            Assignee:
            sara.golemon@mongodb.com Sara Golemon
            Reporter:
            nicholas.cottrell@mongodb.com Nic Cottrell
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