[Freeipa-users] get freeipa to update ad users and groups more often

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 05:00:50PM +0200, Rob Verduijn wrote:
> to make sure I did the following on the ipa host
> 
> systemctl stop sssd.service
> rm -f /var/lib/sss/db/*
> systemctl start sssd.service
> 
> now there is no cheating from cach
> getent passwd user at AD-DOMAIN.COM works and gives userid
> id user at AD-DOMAIN.COM works fine and show all goups the user is a
> member of including ad_linux_administrators (ipa group) and 'linux
> administrators at AD-DOMAIN.COM'
> getent group ad_linux_administrators only shows the group ad, no
> members, these pop up after a very long time
> getent group 'linux administrators at AD-DOMAIN.COM' imediatly show all members

Please note that getent group only works with very recent versions of
ipa and sssd. What version are you running.

> 
> weird....
> 
> Rob Verduijn
> 
> 2016-05-04 16:41 GMT+02:00 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek at redhat.com>:
> > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 04:20:19PM +0200, Rob Verduijn wrote:
> >> This goes especially for ad groups that are bested in ipa_groups
> >>
> >> ie :
> >> microsft group is defined as an external group,
> >> and that external group is member of an ipa group
> >> and that ipa group takes forever.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Rob Verduijn
> >
> > All the work in this area is done by sssd on the server. The sssd there
> > runs a periodical task to re-fetch new external groups memberships every
> > 10 seconds. So I would expect the group memberships to turn up after 10
> > seconds at worst.
> >
> > Are you sure (from sssd logs) that maybe sssd is not going into offline
> > state and just consults its cache?
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> 2016-05-04 16:10 GMT+02:00 Rob Verduijn <rob.verduijn at gmail.com>:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > I'm using a trust to microsoft active directory to allow users access
> >> > to linux servers.
> >> >
> >> > But when a user is added it takes a very long time for ipa to register this.
> >> > And even more time for the ipa clients since they have to wait for the
> >> > ipa servers.
> >> >
> >> > Since I hate to tell the users to wait for a couple hours, and also I
> >> > do not like to clean up the sssd cache folder each time a new user
> >> > appears.
> >> >
> >> > Is there a way to tell ipa and all clients to refresh their cache ?
> >> >
> >> > Regards
> >> > Rob Verduijn
> >>
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