[SSSD] Re: Monotonic clock for timed events

[Victor Tapia]

Hi Fabiano and list,

Please forgive me, I just realized that I wasn't, indeed, running from
master. I'll try again with the proper version and come back if needed.

Thanks!

Victor

El 10/10/16 a las 10:09, Fabiano Fidêncio escribió:
> Victor,
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Victor Tapia
>  wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I've faced a race condition when SSSD boots in a machine with a big
> > clock drift. This is what I see:
> > SSSD starts before the network is up, queries the LDAP server without
> >
> > success and sets a retry timer (~60 secs)
> > 2. NTP starts and corrects the clock, 1 hour back for example.
> > 3. SSSD takes ~60 secs + the drift correction (1 hour) to retry the
> > connection.
> >
> > In this particular scenario the credentials cache is disabled, so the
> > wait time to login is noticeable. How feasible would it be to use a
> > monotonic clock for this kind of timed events?
>
> Are you running git master? This issue is supposed to be already
> solved by https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/commit/b8ceaeb80cffb00c26390913ea959b77f7e848b9
>
> Best Regards,