[CentOS] SSSD cache case-sensitivity

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Robbert Eggermont wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm running CentOS 7.3 with SSSD. I'm using sssd-ad to talk to an AD backend. 
> Group names in the AD contain capitals.
>
> When sssd-ad is working normally, group names returned are all lowercase. 
> However, when the AD backend goes offline, group names returned from the SSSD 
> cache contain capitals.
>
> The change in case breaks stuff (sshd's AllowGroups, for one).
>
> Has anybody else seen this behavior?
> Is there a way to make the group names uniform, whether they come from 
> sssd-ad or the cache?

case_sensitive = Preserving

This way you get capitalisation on what's reported when it's connected and not
AFAIK.

jh