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Bug 705434

Summary: IPA provider fails initgroups() if user is not a member of any group
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh>
Component: sssdAssignee: Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Chandrasekar Kannan <ckannan>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.1CC: benl, dpal, grajaiya, jgalipea, jhrozek, prc
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: sssd-1.5.1-35.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: the IPA provider would report an error if it did not find any group memberships for a user during the initgroups operation Consequence: The initgroups operation failed Fix: the IPA provider was fixed so that it gracefully handles users without group memberships Result: initgroups operation succeeds for users that are not members of any group
Story Points: ---
Clone Of:
: 748834 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-12-06 16:38:24 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:    
Bug Blocks: 748834    

Description Stephen Gallagher 2011-05-17 16:45:38 UTC
Description of problem:
Attempting to perform an initgroups() lookup of a user that belongs to no groups causes SSSD to throw an error and return no results for the user.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sssd-1.5.1-34.el6


How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure sssd using ipa-client-install to point at a FreeIPA v2 server.
2. Add a new user to the FreeIPA v2 server (e.g. newuser)
3. Remove this user from the ipausers group (to which they are added automatically)
4. Verify with 'ipa user-show newuser' that the user is not a member of any groups
5. On the client running SSSD, as root run 'su - newuser'
  
Actual results:
id: cannot find name for user ID 115200007


Expected results:
No error message


Additional info:

Comment 1 Stephen Gallagher 2011-05-17 16:50:10 UTC
Upstream ticket https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/872

Comment 3 Gowrishankar Rajaiyan 2011-10-03 08:47:45 UTC
Server:
# ipa user-add --first=shanks --last=r --password
User login [sr]: shanks
Password: 
Enter Password again to verify: 
-------------------
Added user "shanks"
-------------------
  User login: shanks
  First name: shanks
  Last name: r
  Full name: shanks r
  Display name: shanks r
  Initials: sr
  Home directory: /home/shanks
  GECOS field: shanks r
  Login shell: /bin/sh
  Kerberos principal: shanks.PNQ.REDHAT.COM
  UID: 63600003
  GID: 63600003
  Keytab: True
  Password: True

# ipa group-remove-member ipausers --users=shanks
  Group name: ipausers
  Description: Default group for all users
  GID: 63600001
---------------------------
Number of members removed 1
---------------------------

# ipa user-show shanks
  User login: shanks
  First name: shanks
  Last name: r
  Home directory: /home/shanks
  Login shell: /bin/sh
  UID: 63600003
  GID: 63600003
  Account disabled: False
  Keytab: True
  Password: True

Client:
[root@ratchet ~]# su - shanks
Creating home directory for shanks.
-sh-4.1$ 


Verified.
# rpm -qi sssd | head
Name        : sssd                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.5.1                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 53.el6                        Build Date: Fri 30 Sep 2011 10:10:28 AM EDT
Install Date: Mon 03 Oct 2011 08:54:42 AM EDT      Build Host: hs20-bc2-3.build.redhat.com
Group       : Applications/System           Source RPM: sssd-1.5.1-53.el6.src.rpm
Size        : 3551489                          License: GPLv3+
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://fedorahosted.org/sssd/
Summary     : System Security Services Daemon

Comment 4 Jakub Hrozek 2011-10-26 16:18:32 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Cause: the IPA provider would report an error if it did not find any group memberships for a user during the initgroups operation
Consequence: The initgroups operation failed
Fix: the IPA provider was fixed so that it gracefully handles users without group memberships
Result: initgroups operation succeeds for users that are not members of any group

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 16:38:24 UTC
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, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1529.html