[Freeipa-users] dereference processing failed : Invalid argument

[nathan at nathanpeters.com]

> I have a CentOS 6.3 client with sssd 1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 installed and when
> one of my FreeIPA users tries to sudo (he has permissions via group
> membership) I get the following error in /var/log/messages
>
> May 27 20:51:34 ipaclient sssd[be[mydomain.net]]: dereference processing
> failed : Invalid argument
>
> I have read that this is a known bug
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154042) and that the
> suggested fix is to add the following line to the domain section of the
> sssd.conf :
>
> ldap_group_object_class = ipaUserGroup
>
> I tried adding that and then restarting the client, but it did not fix the
> problem.  I have also read that this problem may only apply to POSIX
> groups so I removed my user from all POSIX groups, added him to non posix
> groups and then created some new sudo rules and hbac rules. I restarted
> the client again and still had the same issue where I could login but not
> sudo.
>
> Is there a known workaround that actually works?
>
> I see this bug is supposed to be fixed in sssd 1.11.8.  Is this version of
> sssd going to be released into any repo for CentOS 6?
>
> I just had a look at the CentOS 6 updates repo and sssd is still at
> 1.11.6-30
>
>
> --

Well, I found that if I updated to CentOS 6.5 and then put the user in all
non posix groups and renamed my sudo rules so they were different names
than my hbac rules I could finally log in and sudo properly with no
messing with my sssd.conf file.

Nothing I tried in CentOS 6.3 would work though.