[SSSD] [PATCHES] support local overrides

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Mon Jul 27 15:29:54 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 05:23:54PM +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 05:09:17PM +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:00:25PM +0200, Pavel Březina wrote:
> > > >Hmm, why? Can we instead send a signal to SSSD to pick up the changes?
> > > >(If yes, then it can be a follow-up patch..)
> > > 
> > > No, it is not possible to change view on the fly the way views are
> > > implemented.
> > > 
> > 
> > I think this is the rule for the IPA provider, but I don't see why it
> > should be this way in responders if we can update the domain info. I'll
> > file a ticket.
> 
> I would say it is a general precaution. Switching the view on-the-fly
> might change UIDs and GIDs mappings of running processes and logged-in
> users on-the-fly. All kind of strange things might happen then, e.g.
> calling 'whoami' might return a different user name, if in the new view
> the UID of the running user belongs to a different user.
> 
> bye,
> Sumit

Hmm, that makes sense, but isn't it a problem after the view is changed
for newly-added overrides also?



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