#3902 SSSD must be cleared/restarted periodically in order to retrieve AD users through IPA Trust
Closed: Fixed 5 years ago Opened 5 years ago by sbose.

Ticket was cloned from Red Hat Bugzilla: Bug 1651812

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Description of problem:
SSSD must be cleared/restarted periodically in order to retrieve AD users
through IPA Trust


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sssd-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64         Sat Nov 17 00:42:26 2018
ipa-server-4.6.4-10.el7.x86_64    Sat Nov 17 00:42:51 2018


How reproducible:
Sporadically (not on a schedule)


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up IPA with the above-mentioned packages and establish a Trust with AD
2. Wait a while (undetermined time, trying to clarify this)


Actual results:
At times, AD users can't be found.


Expected results:
All AD users to be found consistently



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Additional info:

1) The IPA servers having these issues have been configured as Trust
Controllers.  All testing has been performed on IPA Servers, not Clients.

2) The AD users that don't get retrieved have the same properties as users that
don't disappear:

Metadata Update from @sbose:
- Custom field rhbz adjusted to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1651812

5 years ago

The reason for the issue is two-fold.

First, each trusted AD domain has a failover context for the global catalog. This is expected but only one should be used since all global catalogs have the same content it is sufficient to have one connection. In the AD provider the context of the configured domain is used. In the IPA provider there is currently no dedicated context but all can be used.

Second, the fix for #3015 is wrong by giving the same name to all global catalog failover contexts. As a result is a global catalog is looked up the data of the selected global catalog will override the context data for each domain which includes data about the LDAP connection as well. Since all contexts can be used there is the chance that during a request an LDAP lookup might be run against a DC of a different domain. As a result the object is not found and deleted from SSSD's cache.

To fix this the fix for #3015 should be reverted and the IPA provider should use a dedicated failover context for the global catalog, the context related to the forest root domain seems to be the most obvious.

Metadata Update from @sbose:
- Issue assigned to sbose

5 years ago

Commit 62d671b relates to this ticket

Metadata Update from @jhrozek:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

5 years ago

Metadata Update from @jhrozek:
- Issue set to the milestone: SSSD 2.1

5 years ago

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This issue has been cloned to Github and is available here:
- https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/issues/4887

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