On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 09:41:52AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> On 05/20/2013 09:08 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 09:09:17PM +0000, John Bossert wrote:
> >> Am fighting a battle with sssd/ldap and udev (RHEL6/Centos6).
> >> 
> >> I have a udev rule that sets disk ownership to oracle/asmadmin at
> >> boot.  The user oracle and group asmadmin are registered in
> >> ldap.
> >> 
> >> Other (udev) forums suggest that udev is executing before
> >> networking is enabled, ergo ldap is unreachable and the disks
> >> remain owned by root/root. Hmmm, could sssd caching be a
> >> solution?
> >> 
> > 
> > Yes, it should.
> > 
> >> Following the various tutorials, I've enabled sssd, with
> >> "cache_credentials = TRUE" in sssd.conf, but I'm still seeing the
> >> same results.  Either sssd caching isn't happening, or udev isn't
> >> making use of it.
> >> 
> > 
> > cache_credentials only caches salted password hashes (which is off
> > by default). Identity lookups are always cached and if there was at
> > least one lookup prior to requesting the data offline, it should
> > work even before network is up.
> > 
> 
> There might potentially be a race-condition where SSSD is reporting as
> started before the back-ends are responding, depending on which
> version of SSSD he's running. I think we fixed that in RHEL 6.3.
> 

You're right about the problem (it could very well be it), but the fix
landed in 6.4.

> 
> >> # getent --service=sss passwd oracle oracle:*:550:400:Oracle
> >> User:/home/oracle:/bin/bash
> >> 
> > 
> > This seems strange to me, earlier you said that both oracle user
> > and asmadmin group are in LDAP, yet you are able to resolve a the
> > oracle user from passwd?
> > 
> 
> You misread this one. Reordering the arguments for clarity:
> 
> getent passwd -s sss oracle
> 

Ah, thank you. I usually order the parameters the other way around than
the reporter :)
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