[Freeipa-users] CRON: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 01:15:09PM +0800, Thomas Lau wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We have cronjob which running on a FreeIPA LDAP user; When connection
> between IPA server and client having heavy packet loss, following
> error would occur:
> 
> CRON[20637]: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info
> 
> I have cache credentials and store password if offline enabled on
> sssd, how these problem would still happening?
> 
> 
> sssd.conf:
> 
> cache_credentials = True
> krb5_store_password_if_offline = True

Did the use log in at least once offline? You can verify if the password
has been cached using the ldbsearch utility. It would be best to catch
the occurence of the problem in logs.