fix: rebind to ldap svc account after pw check fail

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Fixes #1161

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• Bug Fixes
  • LDAP password authentication now attempts to restore the service-account connection after every user-bind attempt. If the user bind and recovery both fail, the reported error includes both failures; if the user bind succeeds but recovery fails, the recovery error is reported.

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Walkthrough

CheckUserPassword now defers rebinding the LDAP connection to the service account after a user bind attempt. It returns rebind errors, combined with the user-bind error when both operations fail.

Changes

LDAP authentication

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Service-account rebind handling internal/service/auth_service.go	CheckUserPassword defers the service-account rebind. It returns a rebind error after a successful user bind, or reports both errors when the user bind and rebind fail.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2be70

The change restores the service-account bind after failed password checks and rejects authentication when restoration fails. No actionable merge-blocking risk was identified; the change is ready for normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 018ce

A failed login can now change the identity used by concurrent directory lookups, and a failed attempt to restore the service bind is not reported to callers. Failed passwords are still rejected; whether the identity change affects access depends on directory permissions.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: A failed login's new service rebind can occur after another request's successful user bind but before that request's group lookup, changing the identity under which the lookup runs. LDAP ACL differences could then change group results used for authorization.
• Low · reliability · observed: If the newly attempted service rebind fails, its error is assigned only to a local variable in a deferred function. The caller receives the user-bind error without learning that restoration failed, limiting detection and recovery of an uncertain shared-connection state.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The independently attackable surface is a failed LDAP login against a resolvable user. Its added bind can affect other lookups sharing that service instance; the evidence does not establish exposure beyond that connection or a confirmed privilege gain.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — An attacker making a failed LDAP password attempt can cause a service bind to interleave with a legitimate user's bind and uncached group search. Whether that changes the resulting groups or authorization requires differing LDAP visibility; no bypass is established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The basic-auth caller rejects a failed password and records a failed attempt. Mutexes serialize individual LDAP operations, but do not hold one identity across the bind-to-group-lookup sequence.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — A failed restoration does not make the failed login succeed, but its error is omitted from the returned failure, obscuring whether the shared bind was restored.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Give authentication and its dependent group lookup a stable LDAP identity, for example through connection isolation or an operation spanning both steps, and propagate restoration failure through the actual return value.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: rebinding to the LDAP service account after a failed password check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #1161 requires a service-account rebind after every LDAP user bind attempt. CheckUserPassword now defers BindService(true) for the LDAP path, so the rebind runs after both successful and fai…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The whole-pull-request diff changes only internal/service/auth_service.go. The change implements LDAP service-account rebinding and related error handling for issue #1161. No unrelated change is sho…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1…

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Review comments at @internal/service/auth_service.go:
- Around line 211-213: Update the LDAP bind flow in the authentication method
containing auth.ldap.Bind: register the cleanup defer before attempting the user
bind and call auth.ldap.BindService(true) unconditionally so every bind attempt
restores the service-account bind. Use a named error return only if needed to
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Review comments at @internal/service/auth_service.go:
- Line 219: Update the LDAP bind flow around the user-bind error return to use a
named error result, so the deferred BindService(true) rebind failure is included
in the error returned to the caller when both binds fail. Preserve the existing
user-bind error when the rebind succeeds.

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