I'm trying to deploy 2 new VMs which will be docker hosts. Our base template is ubuntu 16.04 last patched on 1.2.18. The process is to spin up a new VM from the template and then patch it, assign IP, and add to free ipa domain - all steps which occurred without error.  However, I'm not able to ssh into these new servers and also unable to log on as my user from the console. Here are the errors from auth.log:

Feb 20 15:16:14 docker-prod-03 sshd[1056]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Feb 20 15:16:14 docker-prod-03 sshd[1056]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Feb 20 15:16:27 docker-prod-03 login[1155]: pam_unix(login:auth): check pass; user unknown
Feb 20 15:16:27 docker-prod-03 login[1155]: pam_unix(login:auth): authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=/dev/tty1 ruser= rhost=
Feb 20 15:16:27 docker-prod-03 login[1155]: pam_sss(login:auth): authentication success; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=/dev/tty1 ruser= rhost= user=jgoddard
Feb 20 15:16:27 docker-prod-03 login[1155]: pam_unix(login:account): could not identify user (from getpwnam(jgoddard))
Feb 20 15:16:27 docker-prod-03 login[1155]: Authentication failure

I spooled out a new VM from the template and did not update it, performed the same tasks (hostname, ip assignment, IPA join), and do not have the problems. Can I get some assistance in 1) isolating which sets of packages caused the issue, and 2) reporting a bug if necessary?

Thanks,

Jeff