There is no objection, and I will cherry-pick #15121 into branch-2.10 today
Thanks Yubiao Feng On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 7:52 PM Yubiao Feng <yubiao.f...@streamnative.io> wrote: > Hi community > > ### Summary > The Admin client (`pulsar-admin`) and Java Client (PulsarAdmin) will throw > Unauthorized Ex in both scenarios: > - If there have more than one broker in a cluster( see issue 1 below ). > - If authentication is enabled for both Pulsar-Proxy and Pulsar-Broker( > see issue 2 below), > > ``` > bin/pulsar-admin topics stats persistent://public/default/tp1 > 2023-03-28T07:30:58,453+0000 [main] INFO > org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.auth.AuthenticationSasl - JAAS loginContext > is: PulsarAdmin. > 2023-03-28T07:30:58,583+0000 [main] INFO > org.apache.pulsar.common.sasl.JAASCredentialsContainer - successfully > logged in. > 2023-03-28T07:30:58,587+0000 [pulsar-tgt-refresh-thread] INFO > org.apache.pulsar.common.sasl.TGTRefreshThread - TGT refresh thread started. > 2023-03-28T07:30:58,612+0000 [pulsar-tgt-refresh-thread] INFO > org.apache.pulsar.common.sasl.TGTRefreshThread - Client principal is " > pulsar-ad...@sn.io". > 2023-03-28T07:30:58,613+0000 [pulsar-tgt-refresh-thread] INFO > org.apache.pulsar.common.sasl.TGTRefreshThread - Server principal is > "krbtgt/sn...@sn.io". > 2023-03-28T07:30:58,617+0000 [pulsar-tgt-refresh-thread] INFO > org.apache.pulsar.common.sasl.TGTRefreshThread - TGT valid starting at: > Tue Mar 28 07:30:58 UTC 2023 > 2023-03-28T07:30:58,617+0000 [pulsar-tgt-refresh-thread] INFO > org.apache.pulsar.common.sasl.TGTRefreshThread - TGT expires: > Wed Mar 29 07:30:58 UTC 2023 > 2023-03-28T07:30:58,617+0000 [pulsar-tgt-refresh-thread] INFO > org.apache.pulsar.common.sasl.TGTRefreshThread - TGT refresh sleeping > until: Wed Mar 29 03:12:29 UTC 2023 > 2023-03-28T07:30:59,861+0000 [main] INFO > org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.auth.PulsarSaslClient - Using > JAAS/SASL/GSSAPI auth to connect to server Principal broker/pulsar03, > HTTP 401 Unauthorized > Reason: HTTP 401 Unauthorized > ``` > > And I want to cherry-pick https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/15121 > into branch-2.10 to fix it. > > ### Background > When using Kerberos for authentication, Pulsar works like this: > - client: init ticket > - request to broker > - broker identifies the client (Broker can confirm the ticket is valid by > Kerberos) > - sends a token(we call it sasl_role_token) to the client ( at this > moment, the session is successfully created ) > - then the client will be authenticated through sasl_role_token, do not > use Kerberos anymore. > > The `sasl_role_token` is generated by this logic: `Sha512(saslRoleName, > ${secret})`, we call the `secret` sasl_sign_secret. > In version `2.10.x`, the variable `secret` is a random string initialized > when the broker starts. > > ### Issue 1 > If a cluster includes two brokers, and a topic `public/default/tp1` is > owned by broker-0. We will get an error when we call `pulsar-admin topics > stats public/default/tp1` to broker-1. > > The whole process goes like this: > - client succeeds in authentication and gets a token from broker-1 > - broker-1 tells the client to redirect to broker-0 > - client request to broker-0 carries the sasl_role_token generated by > broker-1 > - broker-0 can not decode the sasl_role_token, because it has differ > secret of broker-1, and responses 401 > > ### Issue 2 > After authentication is enabled for both Pulsar-Proxy and Pulsar-Broker, > the error occurs as follows > - client succeeds in authentication and gets a token from Pulsar Proxy > - proxy forwards the request to broker > - the broker can not decode the `sasl_role_token`, because it has differed > secret of Pulsar Proxy, and responses 401 > > ### solutions > There have two solutions to solve this issue: > > Solution 1 > - The client saves different tokens for different servers(e.g. > ["broker-0", "broker-1", "pulsar-proxy"]) so servers will receive the > tokens issued by each other, then we can fix Issue 1. > - Proxy and Broker do not enable authentication simultaneously, then we > can fix Issue 2. > > Solution 2 > - Make `sasl_sign_secret` configurable. Users can configure this variable > to the same value, then multi servers can decode every > `sasl_role_token.` PR #15121 does this. > > I'd prefer Solution 2 because it is already in the master branch, so I > want to cherry-pick #15121 into branch-2.10. > > ### Forward Compatibility > In PR #15121, the config `sasl_sign_secret` is a new item in config files. > Since it is required, users will get a system error if does not set it. To > ensure forward compatibility, we can make this variable optional in > branch-2.10 > > > Thanks > Yubiao Feng >
