Identity information not cached for login? - sssd-devel - Fedora mailing-lists

4 Jun 2019


      Hello,
I am using SSSD with NIS via the proxy id_provider and auth_provider (full conf below). I hoped that SSSD's cache would work around the sandboxing of systemd's logind that won't, by default, allow outgoing connections to the provider (see https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7074).
User and credential lookup works fine and I can log in remotely via ssh. However, immediately after auth, at session setup-time, pam_systemd.so calls logind, which calls getpwuid(), which in turn causes a NIS lookup that hangs because of the sandbox. Failure of pam_systemd.so also means I can't login via the GUI.
I was hoping that SSSD's cache, which is up-to-date because of the immediately preceding auth, would be used instead of the NIS lookup. My alternative right now is to specifically disable that sandbox, as described in the link above, but I'd rather understand this completely and perhaps avoid that.
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04, with sssd 1.16.1.
sssd.conf:
[sssd]
services = nss, pam
config_file_version = 2
domains = my.domain.name
[nss]
filter_groups = root
filter_users = root
reconnection_retries = 3
cache_first = true
[pam]
reconnection_retries = 3
pam_verbosity = 3
offline_failed_login_attempts = 3
offline_failed_login_delay = 1
# increased this in hopes of fixing the issue. Nope...
pam_id_timeout = 35
cache_first = true
[domain/my.domain.name]
id_provider = proxy
auth_provider = proxy
proxy_lib_name = nis
proxy_pam_target = none
cache_credentials = true
# increased this in hopes of fixing the issue. Nope...
cached_auth_timeout = 30
# Tried with and without enumeration. No difference.
enumerate = true
The relevant PAM file -- /etc/pam.d/common-session. In my tests via ssh was included via /etc/pam.d/sshd:
session [default=1]                     pam_permit.so
session requisite                       pam_deny.so
session required                        pam_permit.so
session optional                        pam_umask.so
session required        pam_unix.so
session optional        pam_sss.so
# if I comment or skip the next line I get clean ssh logins, but still failing GUI logins.
session optional        pam_systemd.so
nsswitch.conf:
passwd:         compat systemd  sss  
group:          compat systemd  sss  
shadow:         compat sss
gshadow:        files
hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname
networks:       files
protocols:      db files
services:       db files 
ethers:         db files
rpc:            db files
sudoers:        files
getent output
getent passwd testuser:
testuser:$6$salted_hashed_password.:1100:100::/home/testuser:/bin/bash
getent -s sss passwd testuser:
testuser:*:1100:100::/home/testuser:/bin/bash
getent -s sss shadow testuser:
<no output>