[SSSD] About caching of users and group information.

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Fri Jan 22 19:11:50 UTC 2010


On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:50:59 -0500
Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com> wrote:

> I generally agree with Simo but I think that user or group should
> never be deleted but rather marked as deleted.
> This way in special cases like when entry is expired  but user is
> logged SSSD would still be able to use user information ignoring the
> fact that the entry is marked as deleted. 

What would be the utility of marking an entry as deleted ?
If you don't want to delete it just don't.

If you read my follow up, one of the condition to remove an entry is
that it is not referenced by the user entry of a logged in user.

Simo.

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