[Pkg-sssd-devel] Bug#854354: sssd prevents system booting up

[Sebastian Fontius]

Hi,

Also, sprach Jonathan McDowell am Montag, den 06. Februar 2017 um 11:49:
> Looking at the errors provided by systemd in my logs led me to:
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/02/msg00025.html
> 
> which provided the clue I needed to try downgrading ssd from
> 1.15.0-2 (which was pulled in by the update this morning) to
> 1.14.2-1 (the previously installed version). The machine subquently
> rebooted cleanly.

For me removing 'sss' from the 'group' entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf
made the system boot fine with 1.15.0-2.  N.b.: Changing the 'group'
entry was sufficient, neither 'passwd' nor 'shadow' nor any of the
other entries that contain 'sss' need to be changed.  The output of
diff looks like this:

% diff --unified /etc/nsswitch.conf{.orig,}
--- /etc/nsswitch.conf.orig     2017-02-06 11:54:13.864856676 +0100
+++ /etc/nsswitch.conf          2017-02-06 12:10:08.785468192 +0100
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.

 passwd:         compat sss
-group:          compat sss
+group:          compat
 shadow:         compat sss
 gshadow:        files

Of course resolving 'sssd-served' groups doesn't work anymore with
this change:

% ls diff
-rw-r--r-- 1 smc 1000 344 2017-02-06 12:25 diff


Sebastian Fontius


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