On 04/24/2013 10:50 AM, Qing Chang wrote:
>
> On 23/04/2013 4:42 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:59:53AM -0400, Qing Chang wrote:
>>> just for the record. This is considered solved.
>>>
>>> When migrated from OpenLDAP to IPA, inactive user accounts were left
>>> out, but
>>> some of the accounts were still in place as secondary group members
>>> of a certain
>>> group (mri as example). Nonexistent "member" in "cn=groups,cn=accounts"
>>> causes the lookup of group name to fail. After the removal of that
>>> account, the
>>> lookup succeeds.
>>>
>>> In looking at all group membership attributes of the group, it seems
>>> that the
>>> removal of a "member" of "cn=groups,cn=accounts" (which is done in
>>> the Web GUI)
>>> does not translate into the removal of "memberUid" of
>>> "cn=groups,cn=accounts",
>>> as well "memberUid" of "cn=groups,cn=compat".
>>>
>> I would guess that the rfc2307 memberuid attributes would be removed/not
>> migrated and rfc2307bis member attributes would be used instead. But
>> frankly,
>> you might get a more qualified answer on the freeipa-users list:
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
> Our OpenLDAP server was using rfc2307, I guess when migrated, both
> rfc2307 and rfc2307bis
> were used for "cn=groups,cn=accounts", as both memberUid and member
> were created.
> For "cn=groups,cn=compat", only memberUid exist.
>
> When a test account is created and assigned to a group on IPA, for
> "cn=groups,cn=accounts",
> only rfc2307bis is used because only member is added for the assigned
> group.
> Consistently for "cn=groups,cn=compat", only memberUid is added.
>
> Removing the test account DOES remove the member and memberUid entries
> for that account.
>
> I think this is not a bug in IPA or SSSD, it is caused by migrating
> nonexistent members of a group
> that should not happen in the first place. Apologies...
>
> I think I can also assume that it is safe to remove ALL memberUid
> entries for
> "cn=groups,cn=accounts".

Yes.

>
> Regards,
> Qing
>
>>> It seems that "member" and "memberUid" attributes are not in sync.
>>> Is this
>>> a normal behavior? Another curious situation is that sssd seems to
>>> be able to
>>> get the name on some IPA clients not others, as mentioned in my
>>> first post...
>>>
>> As mentioned in my reply to the post, it shouldn't be that way and we
>> need the debug logs to analyze the situation.
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