LAM supports a two level authorization system for its configuration. Therefore, there are two types of configuration passwords: master configuration password: needed to change general settings, create/delete server profiles and self service profiles server profile password: used to change the settings of a server profile (e.g. LDAP server and account types to manage) The master configuration password can be used to reset a server profile password. Each server profile has its own profile password. Both password types are stored as hash values in the configuration files for enhanced security.

The data which is transfered between you and LAM is very sensitive. Please always use SSL encrypted connections between LAM and your browser to protect yourself against network sniffers.

SSL will be used if you use ldaps://servername in your configuration profile. TLS can be activated with the "Activate TLS" option. If your LDAP server uses a SSL certificate of a well-know certificate authority (CA) then you probably need no changes. If you use a custom CA in your company then there are two ways to setup the CA certificates.

This is much easier than system level setup and will only affect LAM. There might be some cases where other web applications on the same web server are influenced. See here for details.

This will make the CA certificates available also to other applications on your system (e.g. other web applications). You will need to setup ldap.conf to trust your server certificate. Some installations use /etc/ldap.conf and some use /etc/ldap/ldap.conf. It is a good idea to symlink /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/ldap/ldap.conf. Specify the server CA certificate with the following option: TLS_CACERT /etc/ldap/ca/myCA/cacert.pem This needs to be the public part of the signing certificate authority. See "man ldap.conf" for additional options. You may also need to specify the CA certificate in your Apache configuration by using the option "LDAPTrustedGlobalCert": LDAPTrustedGlobalCert CA_BASE64 /etc/ldap/ca/myCA/cacert.pem

In case your server has selinux installed you might need to extend the selinux ruleset. E.g. your webserver might not be allowed to write in /var/lib. Read selinux status The following command will tell you if selinux is running in Enforcing or Permissive mode. Enforcing: access that does not match rules is denied Permissive: access that does not match rules is granted but logged to audit.log getenforce Set selinux to Permissive mode This will just log any access violations. You will need this to get a list of missing rights. setenforce Permissive Now do any actions inside LAM that you need for your daily work (e.g. edit server profiles, manage LDAP entries, ...). Extend selinux rules Selinux now has logged any violations to audit.log. You can use this now to extend your ruleset and enable enforcing later. The following example is for httpd. You can also adapt it to e.g. nginx. # build additional selinux rules from audit.log grep httpd /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -m httpdlocal -o httpdlocal.te The httpdlocal.te might look like this: module httpdlocal 1.0; require { type httpd_t; type var_lib_t; class file { setattr write }; } #============= httpd_t ============== #!!!! WARNING 'httpd_t' is not allowed to write or create to var_lib_t. Change the label to httpd_var_lib_t. #!!!! $ semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_var_lib_t /var/lib/ldap-account-manager/config/lam.conf #!!!! $ restorecon -R -v /var/lib/ldap-account-manager/config/lam.conf allow httpd_t var_lib_t:file { setattr write }; Now we can compile and install this rule: # build module checkmodule -M -m -o httpdlocal.mod httpdlocal.te # package module semodule_package -o httpdlocal.pp -m httpdlocal.mod # install module semodule -i httpdlocal.pp Now you can switch back to Enforcing mode: setenforce Enforcing LAM should now work as expected with active selinux.

If your server is chrooted and you have no access to /dev/random or /dev/urandom this can be a security risk. LAM stores your LDAP password encrypted in the session. LAM uses rand() to generate the key if /dev/random and /dev/urandom are not accessible. Therefore the key can be easily guessed. An attaker needs read access to the session file (e.g. by another Apache instance) to exploit this.

You have to install the MCrypt extension for PHP to enable encryption. Your LDAP password is stored encrypted in the session file. The key and IV to decrypt it are stored in two cookies. We use MCrypt/AES to encrypt the password. All data that was read from LDAP and needs to be stored in the session file is also encrypted.

LAM includes several .htaccess files to protect your configuration files and temporary data. Apache is often configured to not use .htaccess files by default. Therefore, please check your Apache configuration and change the override setting to: AllowOverride All If you are experienced in configuring Apache then you can also copy the security settings from the .htaccess files to your main Apache configuration. If possible, you should not rely on .htaccess files but also move the config and sess directory to a place outside of your WWW root. You can put a symbolic link in the LAM directory so that LAM finds the configuration/session files. Security sensitive directories: config: Contains your LAM configuration and account profiles LAM configuration passwords (SSHA hashed) default values for new accounts directory must be accessibly by Apache but needs not to be accessible by the browser sess: PHP session files LAM admin password in clear text or MCrypt encrypted cached LDAP entries in clear text or MCrypt encrypted directory must be accessibly by Apache but needs not to be accessible by the browser tmp: temporary files PDF documents which may also include passwords images of your users directory contents must be accessible by browser but directory itself needs not to be browseable

With HTTP authentication Apache will be responsible to ask for the user name and password. Both will then be forwarded to LAM which will use it to access LDAP. This approach gives you more flexibility to restrict the number of users that may access LAM (e.g. by requiring group memberships). First of all you need to load additional Apache modules. These are "mod_ldap" and "mod_authnz_ldap". Next you can add a file called "lam_auth_ldap" to /etc/apache/conf.d. This simple example restricts access to all URLs beginning with "lam" to LDAP authentication. <location /lam> AuthType Basic AuthBasicProvider ldap AuthName "LAM" AuthLDAPURL "ldap://localhost:389/ou=People,dc=company,dc=com?uid" Require valid-user </location> You can also require that your users belong to a certain Unix group in LDAP: <location /lam> AuthType Basic AuthBasicProvider ldap AuthName "LAM" AuthLDAPURL "ldap://localhost:389/ou=People,dc=company,dc=com?uid" Require valid-user # force membership of lam-admins AuthLDAPGroupAttribute memberUid AuthLDAPGroupAttributeIsDN off Require ldap-group cn=lam-admins,ou=group,dc=company,dc=com </location> Please see the Apache documentation for more details.

In some cases you might want to make the self service accessible via the internet. Here is an Apache config to forward only the required URLs via a proxy server (lamproxy.company.com) in your DMZ to the internal LAM server (lam.company.com). This configuration allows your users to open https://lamproxy.company.com which will then proxy the self service on the internal server. <VirtualHost lamproxy.company.com:443> ServerName lamproxy.company.com ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/lam-proxy-error.log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/lam-proxy-access.log combined DocumentRoot /var/www/lam-proxy <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> SSLProxyEngine on SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyRequests off loglevel info # redirect front page to self service login page RewriteEngine on RedirectMatch ^/$ /templates/selfService/selfServiceLogin.php?scope=user\&name=lam # proxy required URLs ProxyPass /tmp https://lam.company.com/lam/tmp ProxyPass /sess https://lam.company.com/lam/sess ProxyPass /templates/lib https://lam.company.com/lam/templates/lib ProxyPass /templates/selfService https://lam.company.com/lam/templates/selfService ProxyPass /style https://lam.company.com/lam/style ProxyPass /graphics https://lam.company.com/lam/graphics ProxyPassReverse /tmp https://lam.company.com/lam/tmp ProxyPassReverse /sess https://lam.company.com/lam/sess ProxyPassReverse /templates/lib https://lam.company.com/lam/templates/lib ProxyPassReverse /templates/selfService https://lam.company.com/lam/templates/selfService ProxyPassReverse /style https://lam.company.com/lam/style ProxyPassReverse /graphics https://lam.company.com/lam/graphics </VirtualHost>

There is no fully automatic setup of Nginx but LAM provides a ready-to-use configuration file.

The RPM package has dependencies on Apache. Therefore, Nginx is not officially supported with this installation mode. Use tar.bz2 if you are unsure. However, the package also includes an Nginx configuration file. Please include it in your server directive like this: server { ... include /etc/ldap-account-manager/lam.nginx.conf; ... }

The LAM installation package ships with an Nginx configuration file. Please include it in your server directive like this: server { ... include /etc/ldap-account-manager/lam.nginx.conf; ... }

Please add the following configuration snippet to your server directive. You will need to change the alias location ("/usr/share/ldap-account-manager") and fastcgi_pass ("/var/run/php5-fpm.sock") to match your installation. location /lam { index index.html; alias /usr/share/ldap-account-manager; autoindex off; location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; } location ~ /lam/(tmp/internal|sess|config|lib|help|locale) { deny all; return 403; } }