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#3811 [RFE] SSSD does not create missing files during startup
Closed: Invalid Opened by adamkosseck.

Closed: Invalid
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During startup of the SSSD service if non-critical files or folders are missing, service startup will fail.

e.g. logs
rm -f /var/log/sssd/*

e.g. Also files & folders under /var/lib/sss
rm -rf /var/lib/sss/db

During startup SSSD should scan for and recreate any missing files or folders and assign appropriate permissions.

Platforms: RHEL 7.5, Ubuntu 16.04.5, Ubuntu 18.04.1
SSSD Versions tested: 1.13.3, 1.16.x

SSSD do create the files, but not the dirs.

Creating the dirs is responsibility of the package during installation time and the user should never ever be removing them by any reason.

I'd prefer to have it closed as a "NOTABUG".

+1, the directory ownership is something sssd can't even create properly during runtime.

If you removed the dirs, please dnf reinstall the package that owns the dirs. In the future, don't remove the caches directly, but use the sssctl command.

Metadata Update from @jhrozek:
- Issue close_status updated to: Invalid
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

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