Bug 1276153

Summary:	ipa-client-automount --uninstall removes sss entirely from /etc/nssswitch.conf
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	prasun.gera
Component:	ipa	Assignee:	IPA Maintainers <ipa-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Namita Soman <nsoman>
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Version:	6.7	CC:	pvoborni, rcritten
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Description prasun.gera 2015-10-28 21:50:38 UTC

Description of problem:
Uninstalling automount removes sss from nssswitch.conf whereas it should be only touching the automount line. I suspect it is doing backup/restore at a very coarse granularity, and possibly restoring it to a time before the ipa client was installed (instead of the time before automount was setup )

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

ipa-client-3.0.0-47.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
Not easily. I've seen it a few times on some systems. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ipa-client-automount --uninstall

Actual results:

sss is purged entirely from nssswitch.conf

Expected results:

sss should be removed only from the automount line

Additional info:

Comment 2 Petr Vobornik 2015-10-29 11:38:38 UTC

Confirming. On FreeIPA 4.2 

 $ ipa-client-install
 $ ipa-client-automount
 $ ipa-client-automount --uninstall

Returns nsswitch.conf to a state before ipa-client-install

This doesn't mean that all sss is removed but that the restoration of backup files doesn't work well.

The reason is that(at least on 4.2) ipa-client-automount shares backup state with ipa-client-install. It doesn't touch nsswith.conf on installation(no new backup) but on --uninstall it restores nsswith.conf.

Comment 3 Petr Vobornik 2015-10-29 11:39:57 UTC

Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5415

Comment 4 Petr Vobornik 2015-11-05 13:55:15 UTC

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141799#c7

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1141799 ***