[SSSD] sssd not setting IPA AD trusted user homedir

Sumit Bose sbose at redhat.com
Fri Jan 17 12:02:06 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:56:09PM +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:43:04PM +0100, Sumit Bose wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:04:38PM +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:55:08AM +0100, Pavel Reichl wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > We just have to remember to touch this code, if we start to support home
> > > > > directories defined in AD.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I'm sorry that I failed to see what you were implying. My patch will
> > > > override value of homedir for members of every subdomain by
> > > > subdomain_homedir. 
> > > > 
> > > > I missed that even if subdomain_homedir is not set explicitly in
> > > > sssd.conf it has a non NULL value. 
> > > 
> > > Me too and to be honest I failed to test the patch with AD subdomains
> > > with POSIX attributes. Sorry about that.
> > > 
> > > I think Sumit's suggestion makes the most sense now, but the
> > > documentation should be amended, too. Currently the man page implies
> > > that the subdomain_homedir parameter will have equal effect for all
> > > kinds of subdomains, while the code would only use it for IPA-AD trust
> > > cases (be it for the server mode or the client).
> > 
> > I also realized that having the right home directory in sysdb might be
> > useful because krb5_ccname_template allows to expand %h to the user's
> > home directory. And here the home directory is looked up in sysdb.
> > 
> > bye,
> > Sumit
> 
> But that also affects the other options, right? Sounds like a second
> problem to me, or did you want to solve both together?

no

> 
> About the subdomain homedir, I think we should:
>     1) revert the original patch that is commited
>     2) fix the IPA server mode the way you described in your reply to
>        Pavel's mail
>     3) Amend the subdomain_homedir documentation so that it's clear
>        where the option has effect

+1

bye,
Sumit

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