Hi,
I recently encountered issues where logins on Linux clients using SSSD and the AD provider, pointed directly to an AD server were randomly slow. Randomly meaning, some clients experienced no slowness at all, other clients consistently had slow logins (30+ seconds sometimes), and yet other clients had random normal/fast logins, and frequent slow logins.
Through troubleshooting, log analysis and experimentation, it
appears the fix for this issue is to turn off the PAC service.
Once "pac" was removed from the "services =" line in sssd.conf,
the problem client boxes were suddenly consistently fast in terms
of user logins.
This deployment has the clients talking directly to AD servers it
looks up via the normal AD DNS entries, and uses Unix POSIX
attributes in AD for uidnumber and gidnumber etc (e.g. it's not
doing any SID -> unix ID translations, it's just pulling them
directly from LDAP attributes).
I guess my questions are:
I've done a bit of searching and have only found sparse information on sssd_pac, some in Jakob's blog! I'm trying to understand its role.
Thanks,
- Jim