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Description of problem:
When an IdM client is uninstalled using "ipa-client-install --uninstall", there are a few "leftovers" on the system (sssd logs and caches). This might lead to unexpected behavior later on.

Since this request requires ipa-client to remove files belonging to the sssd component, we might want to introduce an additional option in case those files should be removed as part of the uninstall process instead of making the system clean-up the default behavior. Something like "ipa-client-install --uninstall --clean".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipa-client-4.4

How reproducible:


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Additional info:

Slightly different but similar BZ is also bug 1301582 - cleaning of records on IPA server on client uninstall

Upstream ticket:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/6933

Thorsten, how important is removing the logs? What is the purpose, to recover space?

Jakub, is this more for sssd? It seems it would be better for sssd to provide a cleanup tool that would be called by IdM. Or is sss_cache -E sufficient?

(In reply to Rob Crittenden from comment #6)
> Thorsten, how important is removing the logs? What is the purpose, to
> recover space?
> 
> Jakub, is this more for sssd? It seems it would be better for sssd to
> provide a cleanup tool that would be called by IdM. Or is sss_cache -E
> sufficient?

sss_cache does not remove the cache (on purpose, if you're offline and removed the logs, you're cutting yourself off from the machine).

There is a separate tool with a more descriptive name:
  sssctl cache-remove
(in general in newer sssd versions running sss_cache is just redirected to sssctl cache-expire, sssctl is the tool to rule them all..)

The ansible installer work will take care of this, closing this bug.