[SSSD] IPA client randomly lose memory of users

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Mon Dec 3 15:12:14 UTC 2012


On 12/02/2012 11:37 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 10:01:55PM -0500, Qing Chang wrote:
>> On 30/11/2012 7:30 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>>> On 11/30/2012 05:21 PM, Qing Chang wrote:
>>>> my dovecot IMAP server would randomly lose memory of users, as an
>>>> example:
>>>>
>>>> Samba/NFS server knows this user:
>>>> [root at smb2 shassan]# getent passwd bqiang
>>>> bqiang:*:47105:471:Beiping Qiang:/home2/bqiang:/bin/tcsh
>>>>
>>>> But dovecot server does not:
>>>> [root at dovecot2 ~]# getent passwd bqiang
>>>>
>>>> Only when I apply this:
>>>> [root at dovecot2 ~]# \rm /var/lib/sss/db/cache_sri.utoronto.ca.ldb
>>>> [root at dovecot2 ~]# service sssd restart
>>>>
>>>> It gets it:
>>>> [root at dovecot2 ~]# getent passwd bqiang
>>>> bqiang:*:47105:471:Beiping Qiang:/home2/bqiang:/bin/tcsh
>>>>
>>>> So far I have to deal with this for three users. It's quite possible
>>>> that there are more than 3 that are affected, they were just patient
>>>> enough to wait until dovecot "recovers its memory".
>>>>
>>>> =====
>>>> sssd.x86_64                      1.8.0-32.el6
>>>> @rhel-x86_64-server-6
>>>> sssd-client.x86_64               1.8.0-32.el6
>>>> @rhel-x86_64-server-6
>>>> =====
>>>>
>>>> Your help is much appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Qing
>>>>
>>> Can it be because hierarchy changes in some way?
>> I assume this is not a question for me? Please explain if it is, I do not have a clue what this is.
> I think that Dmitri was asking if the group membreships may have changed
> on the server between the two lookups. In other words, was the user
> added to or removed from some groups on the server?

Correct but not only this.
Have the nesting of the groups the user is in changed in any way?
For example a group was moved from one parent group to another.

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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
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