Code in question: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/blob/legacy-3.9/sos/plugins/sssd.py

Line in question: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/blob/73524dc167179039e89a5af65f0c10c2b4fa4192/sos/plugins/sssd.py#L25

Did few tests in all was /etc/sssd/sssd.conf collected.

Can you please share with us at least 1 sosreport which is missing /etc/sssd/sssd.conf ?

Example
# rpm -qa | grep sos
sos-3.9-5.el7_9.2.noarch

# sosreport --build --batch -o sssd

sosreport (version 3.9)

This command will collect diagnostic and configuration information from
this Red Hat Enterprise Linux system and installed applications.

An archive containing the collected information will be generated in
/var/tmp/sos.ZZ33Pc and may be provided to a Red Hat support
representative.

Any information provided to Red Hat will be treated in accordance with
the published support policies at:

  https://access.redhat.com/support/

The generated archive may contain data considered sensitive and its
content should be reviewed by the originating organization before being
passed to any third party.

No changes will be made to system configuration.


 Setting up archive ...
 Setting up plugins ...
[plugin:sssd] skipped command 'sssctl config-check': required services missing: sssd. 
 Running plugins. Please wait ...

  Starting 1/1   sssd            [Running: sssd]

  Finished running plugins


Your sosreport build tree has been generated in:
  /var/tmp/sosreport-rhel7-build-2021-04-06-xufvqff


# ls -al /var/tmp/sosreport-rhel7-build-2021-04-06-xufvqff/etc/sssd/sssd.conf 
-rw-------. 1 root root 195  6. dub 15.58 /var/tmp/sosreport-rhel7-build-2021-04-06-xufvqff/etc/sssd/sssd.conf

I might know what is going on:

sosreport automatically enables the plugin whenever "sssd" package is installed. If a customer runs "sosreport -[o|e] sssd", it will enable the plugin manually and config file will be collected. Since the config file is present (and sssd functionality available) on the system, sosreport should detect "sssd is present" in more broader way. Since:

# yum provides /usr/sbin/sssd
..
sssd-common-1.16.5-10.el7_9.7.x86_64 : Common files for the SSSD
Repo        : rhel-7-server-rpms
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/sbin/sssd

#

and installing sssd-common package, no "sssd" package is present, shouldn't we change

    packages = ('sssd',)

to:

    packages = ('sssd', 'sssd-common')

in sos/plugins/sssd.py#L21 ?


Could somebody with sssd packaging knowledge confirm, if the above test is precise detection of SSSD functionality/feature present on a system?

Raising needinfo on the reporter, to validate if "sssd-common" is the right (and the only relevant) package to be added to the test to automatically enable sssd plugin.

Maria, can you please reply on question above?

Hi Maria,
question which Pavel asked. Currently is sssd details collected by sosreport when "sssd" package is present as per

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/blob/master/sos/report/plugins/sssd.py#L22

And all sosreport you shared does not have package sssd which means sosreport will not run sssd plugin.

Question was if we should run sssd plugin with different conditions for example if "sssd-common" package is installed or with any other package?

Same as for other plugins we will not collect everything every time, so we need to know conditions when to collect sssd related data.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (sos bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:2804