#2406 Saving group membership fails if provider is AD, POSIX attributes are used and primary group contains the user as a member
Closed: Fixed None Opened 9 years ago by jhrozek.

Ticket was cloned from Red Hat Bugzilla (product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6): Bug 1130017

Description of problem:
This bug hits setups where the id_provider is AD or the ldap_schema is set to
AD, at the same time POSIX attributes are used and at the same time the primary
group also includes the user as a 'member' attribute.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sssd-1.11.6-14.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. prepare an AD server with POSIX attributes, enroll sssd to it
2. make sure the primary group of a user also has the 'member' attribute
pointing towards the user
3. run id user

Actual results:
saving group membership fails with:
(Wed Aug 13 17:16:35 2014) [sssd[be[MARS.CORP.COM]]] [sysdb_set_entry_attr]
(0x0080): ldb_modify failed: [Attribute or value exists]
(Wed Aug 13 17:16:35 2014) [sssd[be[MARS.CORP.COM]]] [sysdb_set_entry_attr]
(0x0040): Error: 17 (File exists)
(Wed Aug 13 17:16:35 2014) [sssd[be[MARS.CORP.COM]]] [sysdb_store_group]
(0x0400): Error: 17 (File exists)
(Wed Aug 13 17:16:35 2014) [sssd[be[MARS.CORP.COM]]] [sdap_save_grpmem]
(0x0080): sysdb_store_group failed: [17][File exists].
(Wed Aug 13 17:16:35 2014) [sssd[be[MARS.CORP.COM]]] [sdap_save_grpmem]
(0x0040): Failed to save members of group adgrp01

Expected results:
saving group membership succeeds.

Additional info:
It is not typical that the primary group also contains the user as a member. At
the same time, we have code that special-cases the AD provider so that also all
members of primary group are added as groups the user is a member of, because
that's what Windows clients do. This special-case breaks when the AD primary
group *also* contains the user as a member.

I think we should simply use ldb permissive control to save the membership.

As agreed on the Aug-14 meeting, moving to the 1.11.6 milestone

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milestone: NEEDS_TRIAGE => SSSD 1.11.7
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owner: somebody => jhrozek
status: new => assigned

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patch: 0 => 1

resolution: => fixed
status: assigned => closed

Metadata Update from @jhrozek:
- Issue assigned to jhrozek
- Issue set to the milestone: SSSD 1.11.7

7 years ago

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