[Freeipa-users] IPA client randomly lose memory of users

[Rob Crittenden]

Qing Chang wrote:
> my dovecot IMAP server would randomly lose memory of users, as an example:
>
> Samba/NFS server knows this user:
> [root at smb2 shassan]# getent passwd bqiang
> bqiang:*:47105:471:Beiping Qiang:/home2/bqiang:/bin/tcsh
>
> But dovecot server does not:
> [root at dovecot2 ~]# getent passwd bqiang
>
> Only when I apply this:
> [root at dovecot2 ~]# \rm /var/lib/sss/db/cache_sri.utoronto.ca.ldb
> [root at dovecot2 ~]# service sssd restart
>
> It gets it:
> [root at dovecot2 ~]# getent passwd bqiang
> bqiang:*:47105:471:Beiping Qiang:/home2/bqiang:/bin/tcsh
>
> So far I have to deal with this for three users. It's quite possible
> that there are more than 3 that are affected, they were just patient
> enough to wait until dovecot "recovers its memory".
>
> Again, this seems to be a sssd bug?

Seems like it. I'd go ahead and file a bug against sssd to get the ball 
rolling.

If you can enable sssd debugging and catch the case where a user is lost 
I'm sure that would be very helpful to the sssd team.

rob