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# Bottin
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[](https://drone.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/bottin)
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<img src="https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/bottin/raw/branch/master/bottin.png" style="height: 150px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" />
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Bottin is a LDAP server that uses Consul's key-value store as a storage backend,
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in order to provide a redundant (high-availability) LDAP server on a Nomad+Consul cluster.
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It is a reimplementation of [superboum's Bottin](https://github.com/superboum/bottin)
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using the Go programming language.
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**Use case:** [Deuxfleurs](https://deuxfleurs.fr) is a self-hosting collective
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where we try to build a resilient infrastructure with commodity hardware by
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having redundancy and auto-reconfiguration (this is why we use the Nomad+Consul
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stack). We try to use replicated/high availability data stores everywhere we
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can, and Bottin helps us do this for the LDAP service. We are not managing a
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high number of users at the moment and scalability is not our highest priority.
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Features:
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- most LDAP operations implemented (add, modify, delete, compare, search with most basic filters)
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- TLS support with STARTTLS
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- Access control through an ACL (hardcoded in the configuration file)
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A Docker image is provided on the [Docker hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/lxpz/bottin_amd64).
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An example for running Bottin on a Nomad cluster can be found in `bottin.hcl.example`.
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Bottin takes a single command line argument, `-config <filename>`, which is the
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path to its config file (defaults to `./config.json`).
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The configuration file is a JSON file whose contents is described in the following section.
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[Guichet](https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/guichet) is a simple LDAP web administration
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interface that works well with Bottin.
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Bottin is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3.
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## Building Bottin
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Bottin requires go 1.13 or later.
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To build Bottin, clone this repository outside of your `$GOPATH`.
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Then, run `make` in the root of the repo.
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## Server initialization
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When Bottin is launched on an empty database,
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it creates a special admin entity with the name `cn=admin,your_suffix`.
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It will have a randomly generated password that is printed out by the server.
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Check your logs to retrieve the password.
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The admin entity has no powers other than those granted by the ACL rules,
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so unless you don't want to use it, make sure to keep rules that allow to
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bind to the admin entity and that allows the admin entity to do everything.
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## Configuration of Bottin
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### Logging
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Bottin supports all of the log levels of [logrus](https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus).
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The log level can be specified in the key `log_level` of the json config file,
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or in the environment variable `BOTTIN_LOG_LEVEL`.
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By default, the log level is set to `info`.
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### The LDAP suffix
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Bottin only handles LDAP entries under a given path, which is typically of
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the form `dn=sld,dn=tld`, where `sld.tld` is your domain name. Specify this
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suffix in the `suffix` key of the json config file.
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### Connection to the Consul server
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By default, Bottin connects to the Consul server on localhost.
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Change this by specifying the `consul_host` key in the json config file.
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### Bind addresses
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#### Insecure port
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By default, Bottin listens on all interfaces on port 389 for standard
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non-TLS connections. Change the value of the `bind` key in the json config
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file to change this behaviour (default value: `0.0.0.0:389`). An empty string
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will disable this port and Bottin will not listen for non-TLS connections.
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#### Secure port
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If a TLS configuration is provided (see next section), Bottin also listens
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on all interfaces on port 636 for TLS connections. Change the value of the
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`bind_secure` key in the json config file to change this behaviour (default
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value: `0.0.0.0:636`). An empty string will disable this port and Bottin
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will not listen for TLS connections.
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### TLS
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Bottin supports TLS connections using either fully secure connections or
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using the STARTLS functionnality of the LDAP protocol to upgrade from an
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insecure connection. To use it, specify the following three keys in the json
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config file:
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- `tls_server_name`: the host name that clients will use to reach your LDAP server
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- `tls_cert_file`: path to your TLS certificate (a `.pem` file)
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- `tls_key_file`: path to your TLS key (a `.pem` file)
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If a TLS configuration is provided, the `STARTTLS` mechanism may be used on the
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insecure port, independently of whether the secure port is enabled or not.
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The secure port is disabled and a warning is shown if the `bind_secure` value
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is set (non-empty) and no valid TLS configuration is provided.
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### Access control list
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Bottin supports a flexible syntax to specify access rights to items in the database.
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The ACL is specified as a list of rules. A request will be allowed if there exists a rule that allows it. Otherwise an insufficient permission error will be returned.
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The list of ACL rules are specified in the `acl` key of the json config file, as a list of strings whose structure is defined in the next paragraph.
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#### Rule format
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A rule is a string composed of five fields separated by `:`. The fields are the following:
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1. The name of the user that must be bound (logged in) for the rule to apply. May contain wildcards such as `*` (see the format used by Go's `path.Match`). The special name `ANONYMOUS` applies to clients before they bind to an LDAP entity.
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2. The groups that the user must be a part of, separated by spaces. Wildcards may also be used. If several groups (or wildcard group patterns) are specified, for each pattern the user must be part of a group that matches it.
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3. The action, a subset of `bind`, `read`, `add`, `delete`, `modify`, `modifyAdd` separated by spaces. `modifyAdd` is a special value that only authorizes modifications that add new values to a given attribute. This can be used to allow users to add other users to a group but not remove users from the group.
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4. The target entity of the action as a pattern that may contain wildcards. The special word `SELF` is replaced by the entity name of the bound user before trying to match.
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5. The allowed attributes for a read, add or modify operation. This is specified as a list of patterns to include and exclude attributes, separated by spaces. A pattern that starts by `!` is an exclude pattern, otherwise it is an include pattern. To read/write an attribute, it has to match at least one include pattern and not match any exclude pattern. Delete operations do not check for any attribute, thus as soon as `delete` is included in the allowed actions, the right to delete entities is granted.
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#### Rule examples
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- Anybody (before binding) can bind to an entity under `ou=users,dc=bottin,dc=eu`:
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`ANONYMOUS::bind:*,ou=users,dc=bottin,dc=eu:`
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- Anybody (before binding) can bind to the specific admin entity:
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`ANONYMOUS::bind:cn=admin,dc=bottin,dc=eu:`
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- Anybody who is logged in can read anything that is not a userpassword attribute:
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`*,dc=bottin,dc=eu::read:*:* !userpassword`
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- Anybody can read and modify anything from their own entry:
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`*::read modify:SELF:*`
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- The admin can read, add, modify, delete anything:
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`cn=admin,dc=bottin,dc=eu::read add modify delete:*:*`
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- Members of the admin group can read, add, modify, delete anything:
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`*:cn=admin,ou=groups,dc=bottin,dc=eu:read add modify delete:*:*`
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