[Freeipa-users] reboot required after ipa-client-install?

Dean Hunter deanhunter at comcast.net
Fri Nov 8 20:42:21 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 22:17 -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote:

> On 11/07/2013 06:20 PM, Dean Hunter wrote: 
> 
> > On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 17:41 -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> > 
> > > On 11/07/2013 12:59 PM, Dean Hunter wrote: 
> > > 
> > > > On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 12:36 -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On 11/07/2013 12:21 PM, Dean Hunter wrote: 
> > > > > 
> > > > > > On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 09:44 +0200, Alexander Bokovoy wrote: 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > On Wed, 06 Nov 2013, Dean Hunter wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > >After building a new VM and configuring the IPA 3.3.2 client, Gnome
> > > > > > > >seems to only perform a local log-in until the system is rebooted. SSH
> > > > > > > >works with IPA, but not Gnome. Is this correct? Is there anything less
> > > > > > > >disruptive than a reboot that I can do?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Restart gdm.service?
> > > > > > > I'm not sure how gdm handles PAM auth.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I have tried:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >         ipa-client-install ...
> > > > > >         systemctl restart gdm.service
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > but the behavior remains the same. The Gnome log in screen
> > > > > > accepts the user name, pauses about 25 seconds, then
> > > > > > displays the log in screen again without any messages or
> > > > > > indication of a problem. This is the same behavior I see
> > > > > > when entering an incorrect local user name before
> > > > > > configuring IPA.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > _______________________________________________
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> > > > > > Freeipa-users at redhat.com
> > > > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
> > > > > 
> > > > > Can it be a DIR cache issue and the fact that the directory
> > > > > can't is not created at proper time?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Which directory, please?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > If you are hitting the DIR cache issue (which I am not sure is the
> > > case this is why I asked about AVCs) then the directory we are
> > > talking about is /var/run/usr/<uid> 
> > > This directory should be created by kerberos library when it tries
> > > to authenticate a user. But it might not be able to since a parent
> > > directory /var/run/usr might not be created yet. This is one of
> > > the reasons why we decided not to continue the path of DIR cache
> > > but switched to using Kernel based ccache.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > Do you see any AVCs?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Question still stands.
> > 
> > 
> > I see no AVCs:
> > 
> >         [root at ipa ~]# ausearch --message AVC
> >         <no matches>
> >         [root at ipa ~]# 
> >         
> > 
> > I did find this in the man page for nsswitch.conf:
> > 
> >         FILES
> >                A service named SERVICE is implemented by a shared
> >         object library named
> >                libnss_SERVICE.so.X that resides in /lib.
> >         
> >                    /etc/nsswitch.conf       NSS configuration file.
> >                    /lib/libnss_compat.so.X  implements "compat"
> >         source.
> >                    /lib/libnss_db.so.X      implements "db" source.
> >                    /lib/libnss_dns.so.X     implements "dns" source.
> >                    /lib/libnss_files.so.X   implements "files"
> >         source.
> >                    /lib/libnss_hesiod.so.X  implements "hesiod"
> >         source.
> >                    /lib/libnss_nis.so.X     implements "nis" source.
> >                    /lib/libnss_nisplus.so.X implements "nisplus"
> >         source.
> >         
> >         NOTES
> >                Within each process that uses nsswitch.conf, the
> >         entire  file  is  read
> >                only  once.   If  the  file is later changed, the
> >         process will continue
> >                using the old configuration.
> > 
> > 
> > Is this why the default configuration of nsswitch.conf is changing
> > in Fedora 20, as noted on of the preceeding e-mails?
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Yes I think SSS is now included by default. But if man page does not
> list it it is probably a bug in the man page.


Hmm, I just built a Fedora 20 Beta VM.  /etc/nsswitch.conf is no
different than after a Fedora 19 build.

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