[Freeipa-users] Winsync agreements, what happens if it breaks?

[Rich Megginson]

On 03/11/2012 03:45 PM, Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I have a winsync agreement from AD to IPA, and this does uni-directional password from AD to IPA and for some reason this temporarily breaks, say a network failure.....
If you are talking about password sync from AD to IPA, and only that, 
then this is only concerning the PassSync service you install on your AD 
domain controllers
>
> 1) Is there a time limit to -re-establish before it becomes "stale"?
No.  It will keep trying indefinitely.
>
> 2_ Once the communications is functioning again will the differences catch up?
Yes.
> say someone changes their AD password while the winsync was broken.....will it sync later anyway?
It depends on what you mean by "broken".  If the PassSync service is not 
running, then no password changes will be stored, so none will be replayed.
>
> regards
>
> Steven Jones
>
> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
>
> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
>
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>
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