Re: cimcli authentication loop

Hi Tony
cimcli seems to be working fine in my dev env.
What are the env variables set?
Warm Regards
D.L. Meetei
IBM Systems &Technology Lab
6th Floor, EGL -D block
Bangalore, India



From:   Tony Asleson <[email protected]>
To:     [email protected]
Date:   08/18/2011 03:54 AM
Subject:        cimcli authentication loop



Greetings,

This is my first exposure to CIM/WBEM and I have been experimenting with
the openpegasus library.  If I create a very simple client that does
nothing more than connects and enumerates classes on port 5988 (no ssl)
everything works.  If I attempt the same operation using cimcli with the
following command:

./cimcli ec -v -d -n 'root/ontap' -l 192.168.2.25:5988 -u root -p xxxxxx

the command never returns.

Looking at data going across the socket shows that in my simple example
the client sends a request, which is rejected by the server
(Unauthorized) and the client responds by sending a request utilizing
basic authentication which succeeds and allows the operation to
complete.  Looking at the scenario where I use cimcli the client gets
caught in a loop sending a request and getting an Unauthorized response
every time.

The code in the method (Message* CIMClientRep::_doRequest) is where I am
stuck in a loop.  We repeatedly retrieve the response where
response->getCloseConnect() == true so we disconnect.  We then reconnect
and send the request and start all over again.

So the simple example code I wrote which uses the CIMClient class
handles the unauthorized response by following up with the basic
authentication which succeeds.  How do I get this same authentication
behavior with cimcli?

Regards and many thanks,
Tony


stdout/stderr

$ ./cimcli ec -v -d  -n 'root/ontap' -l 192.168.2.25:5988 -u root -p 
xxxxxx

namespace = root/ontap
role =
resultRole =
location = localhost:5988
filter =
queryLanguage = WQL
User = root
Password = xxxxxx
Output Format = mof
Command = ec
Connect to localhost port=5988 for User=root
EnumerateClasses Namespace= root/ontap, Class= , deepInheritance= false,
localOnly= true, includeQualifiers= true, includeClassOrigin= false

$ ./cimcli --version
Version 2.11.0