[SSSD] Wiki pages on SSSD Troubleshooting and reporting bugs

Pavel Březina pbrezina at redhat.com
Wed Mar 25 10:18:23 UTC 2015


On 03/24/2015 10:09 PM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:57:05PM +0100, Pavel Březina wrote:
>> On 03/19/2015 12:53 PM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I created two wiki pages to help our users troubleshoot their setups and
>>> file better bug reports. I hope the information captured there would
>>> allow us to receive better information, avoid copying and explaning the
>>> same principles over and over -- and ultimately have more time for
>>> coding :-)
>>>
>>> The Troubleshooting page is here:
>>>      https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/Troubleshooting
>>> And the Bug reporting page is here:
>>>      https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/Reporting_sssd_bugs
>>>
>>> In the troubleshooting page, I tried to stay away from describing known
>>> bugs and rather describe how SSSD works so the user can see which part
>>> doesn't work and needs to be fixed or reconfigured.
>>
>> Maybe we can add a link to may thesis [1], where is thoroughly described how
>> sssd works?
>
> Added, good idea:
>      https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/Troubleshooting?action=diff&version=16&old_version=15
>
>>
>>>
>>> I would also like to add a section about debugging sudo, but I know Dan
>>> had some ideas and also I'd like to hear Pavel's opionion before doing
>>> the work.
>>
>> Honestly, I don't really know if any of the customers issues occurs
>> regularly. But the troubleshooting is all the same:
>> - ldbsearch to see if the rules are actually downloaded
>> - check the logs how many rules are returned to sudo
>
> OK, what about debugging of sudo itself? It differs a bit between
> versions, but would it for instance show if the user was missing a group
> membership?

sudo debug output is quite difficult to read and even I don't ever know 
what am I looking for there :) I don't even remember if it ever provided 
any useful information...

>
>>
>> Most of the problems where misconfiguration of some sort. Maybe Dan can
>> provide more statistics from customer portal.
>>
>>>
>>> If the other developers agree on the wiki pages, I would like to link
>>> them from the SSSD front page. I'd like to also unlink the obsolete
>>> Howto, at least until/if a new one is created.
>>>
>>> I'll be happy to hear reviews or comments.
>>
>> Good job with those documents. Kudos!
>>
>> [1] http://is.muni.cz/th/359290/fi_m/thesis.pdf
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