If I add a user on the ldap server I have to reboot the client before
the new user is seen. This is OK when the client is just a workstation
but not when the client is a server.
The LDAP server is a Suse 11.3 machine. When the file servers are also
SUSE 11.3 the change is recognised immediately. So if I create a user
on the LDAP server and then go to the NFS server and create a home directory
I can immediately do something like chown user.name user.name If I do this
on an openSUSE13.1 server I get ‘invalid user’ until the box is rebooted. I thought
restarted sssd would be the answer but it’s not.
Any ideas ?
ta
M
On 2014-09-04 19:56, interele wrote:
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> If I add a user on the ldap server I have to reboot the client before
> the new user is seen. This is OK when the client is just a workstation
> but not when the client is a server.
>
> The LDAP server is a Suse 11.3 machine.
SUSE or openSUSE? The difference is important.
If SUSE, it is the commercial version, SLES or SLED, probably version
11, service pack 3, and then you are on the wrong forum. Please post
here instead: SLES/SLED forums
(same login/pass).
If openSUSE, 11.3 is out of maintenance, not supported since long time.
It is up to you to keep using it, of course, you may have your reasons;
but people here will no longer be familiar with it, and we will not be
able to try reproduce your problem.
Please clarify 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
The problem is with openSUSE 13.1 ( or my lack of knowledge )
When the NFS servers are SUSE 11.3 SP3 it works as expected
as in when you add a user on the LDAP the NFS server ‘sees’
it immediately
When the NFS server is openSUSE 13.1 the server doesn’t see
the new user until after a reboot.
Ta
M
On 2014-09-04 21:26, interele wrote:
>
> The problem is with openSUSE 13.1 ( or my lack of knowledge )
>
> When the NFS servers are SUSE 11.3 SP3 it works as expected
> as in when you add a user on the LDAP the NFS server ‘sees’
> it immediately
>
> When the NFS server is openSUSE 13.1 the server doesn’t see
> the new user until after a reboot.
I’m sorry, I don’t get the picture. What’s the relation between NFS and
LDAP? You will have to explain your setup more, for somebody to try and
help 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Sorry 
Here is the old set up
Machine 1 is an LDAP server with all the users and home directories in the directory ( Suse 11.3 SP3 )
Machine 2 is a NFS file server which holds home directories and authenticates from machine 1 ( Suse 11.3 SP3 )
I go to machine 1 and add a newuser
Then I go to machine 2 and
cd /home
mkdir newuser
chown newuser newuser
Everything is OK
Now Suse have decided to charge me 5 x what they did last year so I wanted to use openSUSE as the NFS servers
so the setup is now
Machine 1 is an LDAP server with all the users and home directories in the directory ( Suse 11.3 SP3 )
Machine 2 is a NFS file server which holds home directories and authenticates from machine 1 ( openSUSE 13.1 )
I go to machine 1 and add a newuser
Then I go to machine 2 and
cd /home
mkdir newuser
chown newuser newuser
Error ‘Invalid user’
reboot the openSUSE box
now doing chown newuser newuser works
I thought sssd was caching the usernames but restarting that
didn’t make any difference
Ta
M