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Bug 874545 - Confusing error messages for invalid sssd.conf
Summary: Confusing error messages for invalid sssd.conf
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: sssd
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Jakub Hrozek
QA Contact: Kaushik Banerjee
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-08 12:16 UTC by Nikolai Kondrashov
Modified: 2020-05-02 17:04 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: sssd-1.11.2-65.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-06-17 14:20:11 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Github SSSD sssd issues 2667 0 None closed Confusing error messages for invalid sssd.conf 2020-12-04 15:59:50 UTC

Description Nikolai Kondrashov 2012-11-08 12:16:53 UTC
Description of problem:
error messages logged by sssd when sssd.conf is invalid are confusing

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libsss_autofs-1.9.2-7.el6.x86_64
sssd-1.9.2-7.el6.x86_64
libsss_sudo-1.9.2-7.el6.x86_64
libsss_idmap-1.9.2-7.el6.x86_64
sssd-client-1.9.2-7.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:

echo Invalid permissions
> /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
chmod 644 /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
sssd -i

echo Empty file
chmod 600 /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
sssd -i

echo Invalid configuration
cat <<<"
[domain/default]
[sssd]
services = nss, pam
config_file_version = 2
domains = 
" > /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
sssd -i

Actual results:
Invalid permissions
(Thu Nov  8 14:04:57:043303 2012) [sssd] [main] (0x0020): Cannot read configuration file /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
Empty file
(Thu Nov  8 14:04:57:048903 2012) [sssd] [main] (0x0020): Error loading configuration database: [22]: Invalid argument
Invalid configuration
(Thu Nov  8 14:04:57:247281 2012) [sssd] [main] (0x0020): Error loading configuration database: [2]: No such file or directory

Expected results:
something like this:

Invalid permissions
(Thu Nov  8 14:04:57:043303 2012) [sssd] [main] (0x0020): Configuration file /etc/sssd/sssd.conf mode bits too permissive
Empty file
(Thu Nov  8 14:04:57:048903 2012) [sssd] [main] (0x0020): Error loading configuration file /etc/sssd/sssd.conf: configuration invalid
Invalid configuration
(Thu Nov  8 14:04:57:247281 2012) [sssd] [main] (0x0020): Error loading configuration file /etc/sssd/sssd.conf: configuration invalid 

Additional info:

I understand that sssd produces additional, more meaningful error messages with
elevated debug level. However, the summary messages are very confusing and
should be fixed. Plus, the class of configuration error messages could be
changed to match the default debug level.

Comment 2 Dmitri Pal 2012-11-08 14:20:19 UTC
Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1625

Comment 5 Martin Kosek 2014-06-17 14:19:50 UTC
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

Contact your manager or support representative in case you have further
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