On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:59:53AM -0400, Qing Chang wrote:
just for the record. This is considered solved.
When migrated from OpenLDAP to IPA, inactive user accounts were left out, but some of the accounts were still in place as secondary group members of a certain group (mri as example). Nonexistent "member" in "cn=groups,cn=accounts" causes the lookup of group name to fail. After the removal of that account, the lookup succeeds.
In looking at all group membership attributes of the group, it seems that the removal of a "member" of "cn=groups,cn=accounts" (which is done in the Web GUI) does not translate into the removal of "memberUid" of "cn=groups,cn=accounts", as well "memberUid" of "cn=groups,cn=compat".
I would guess that the rfc2307 memberuid attributes would be removed/not migrated and rfc2307bis member attributes would be used instead. But frankly, you might get a more qualified answer on the freeipa-users list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
It seems that "member" and "memberUid" attributes are not in sync. Is this a normal behavior? Another curious situation is that sssd seems to be able to get the name on some IPA clients not others, as mentioned in my first post...
As mentioned in my reply to the post, it shouldn't be that way and we need the debug logs to analyze the situation.