[SSSD] [PATCH] Allow running with read only root

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Thu Mar 25 16:16:07 UTC 2010


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On 03/24/2010 05:46 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:30:09 -0400
> Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> I agree with Jakub here. I think it's perfectly acceptable to include
>> the SSSD in the rwtab. A person using a read-only root is probably
>> doing so BECAUSE they don't care about persistence across reboots. In
>> these cases, having our SSSD as a cache while the machine is up is
>> still advantageous, because it allows the machine to survive a remote
>> auth server outage.
>>
>> Yes, we'll lose the cache on reboot, and we will be unable to use SSSD
>> for a provider=local setup, but I very much doubt that anyone would be
>> using it for anything other than a reliable cache in this situation.
>>
> 
> Ok, it looks like most are ok with it,
> I retire my objection.
> 
> Simo.
> 

Pushed to master.

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