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#1559 [RFE] Use the getpwnam()/getgrnam() interface as a gateway to resolve SID to Names
Closed: Fixed Opened by simo.

Closed: Fixed
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It would be useful if we culd expose SID->Name resolution as a special case through the getpwnam()/getpwgroup() interfaces, by simply passing in a SID a string.

This will allow a number of components to do SID->Name resolution cheaply using a well-known existing interface and keep the cache in a single place within SSSD. The FreeIPA server could also benefit from this approach and defer to SSSD for SID->Name resolution.

I do not see a simple way to do Name->SID resolution through nsswitch interfaces, but that operation is less common and we can deal with it separately if needed.

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milestone: NEEDS_TRIAGE => SSSD 1.10 beta
rhbz: => 0
summary: Use the getpwnam()/getgrnam() interface as a gateway to resolve SID to Names => [RFE] Use the getpwnam()/getgrnam() interface as a gateway to resolve SID to Names

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priority: major => critical

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owner: somebody => simo
status: new => assigned

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design: =>
design_review: => 0
fedora_test_page: =>
selected: => Want

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owner: simo => sbose
status: assigned => new

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review: => 0

The first batch of patches landed in master:

  • 2962b3d1e072ff2ebbe343095812dad697d6bf1d
  • 44c379a27a2d8de0ad933ebb2558b5e82b05fd56
  • b5afbc39c09baaef57b5300b636307e277c59d66
  • 1e72a17f6527d47968032fc928f489dad10705ea
  • 498dcbdfdfffa1aee65d53e83c7eafd5e3b084a5
  • f427b36b0cecc426856ab3f77a9c684ac355659d
  • f0944fdd627bd684ff36c9670dc857ffdedc343f
  • 206329d3901738036352f2ac1e8d7804f728861d
  • 1ae6d34788fd6ac2278be52b60d77c77073d98f3
  • 5a6e3cb57cf2d8d4118b58be0574cccea171ca19
  • 2648ec1017d37c0840294352b69fc87047da0368
  • 4668b4765530cf37289235e483f301100cc1ae21

The patches that implement the library itself and its plugin interface were pushed to master:

  • c080a11e9e88f35e40aff4e476cabbd971833019
  • 2a9af1f71887f02935e2fb6ad5023afba5b6d43e
  • 6eadbf9dab2ad9a9463dc23e91c9e2fc804c1e9b
  • e2f6326ea56217afab7623c542a237ee84eb74da

resolution: => fixed
status: new => closed

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rhbz: 0 => [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887035 887035]

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changelog: => IPA Web UI is able to display real names not only SIDs.
design: => N/A ((not visible to end user at the moment)

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design: N/A ((not visible to end user at the moment) => N/A (not visible to end user at the moment)

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design: N/A (not visible to end user at the moment) => https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/NSSResponderIDMappingCalls

Metadata Update from @simo:
- Issue assigned to sbose
- Issue set to the milestone: SSSD 1.10 beta

SSSD is moving from Pagure to Github. This means that new issues and pull requests
will be accepted only in SSSD's github repository.

This issue has been cloned to Github and is available here:
- https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/issues/2601

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Thank you for understanding. We apologize for all inconvenience.
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Low
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enhancement
SSSD
1.9.0
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887035
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/NSSResponderIDMappingCalls
Want
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IPA Web UI is able to display real names not only SIDs.
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