Bug 887277 – Offline mode timeout not documented

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Bug 887277 - Offline mode timeout not documented

Summary:	Offline mode timeout not documented

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	sssd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	unspecified Severity unspecified
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Jakub Hrozek
QA Contact:	Kaushik Banerjee
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Reported:	2012-12-14 09:25 EST by Nikolai Kondrashov
Modified:	2015-03-05 05:26 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	sssd-1.12.0-1.el7
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-03-05 05:26:50 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2015:0441	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	sssd bug fix and enhancement update	2015-03-05 10:05:27 EST

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Description Nikolai Kondrashov 2012-12-14 09:25:44 EST

Description of problem:
When sssd is in offline mode and a request comes in to a data provider, an attempt to connect to the server is only made if the last attempt was 60 or more seconds ago.

This mechanism and the specific hardcoded timeout are not found in the documentation. It is important to have this documented, so, for example, system administrators could predict when the clients will restore the connection after the server comes back online.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sssd-client-1.9.2-41.el6.x86_64
libsss_idmap-1.9.2-41.el6.x86_64
libsss_sudo-1.9.2-41.el6.x86_64
sudo-1.8.6p3-6.el6.x86_64
sssd-1.9.2-41.el6.x86_64

Comment 2 Jakub Hrozek 2012-12-14 10:03:30 EST

Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1718

Comment 5 Jakub Hrozek 2013-11-07 05:38:50 EST

Fixed upstream:
    master: 4fcc27c0474b1879119cb04de4ed209711df231e

Comment 7 Kaushik Banerjee 2015-01-05 05:38:43 EST

Verified in version sssd-1.12.2-39.el7

man sssd.conf has:

offline_timeout (integer)
           When SSSD switches to offline mode the amount of time before it
           tries to go back online will increase based upon the time spent
           disconnected. This value is in seconds and calculated by the
           following:

           offline_timeout + random_offset

           The random offset can increment up to 30 seconds. After each
           unsuccessful attempt to go online, the new interval is recalculated
           by the following:

           new_interval = old_interval*2 + random_offset

           Note that the maximum length of each interval is currently limited
           to one hour. If the calculated length of new_interval is greater
           than an hour, it will be forced to one hour.

           Default: 60

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 05:26:50 EST

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.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0441.html

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