Comment 4 for bug 1777860

On 06/21/2018 04:39 PM, Robie Basak wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better.
>
> It looks like upstream added a PIDFile entry to the systemd service
> definition in 1.16.1, which is included in Bionic and Cosmic. So it's
> likely that this bug is fixed there.
>
> Therefore this bug affects only Xenial and possibly Artful.
>
>> In our environment, with hundreds of computers running Ubuntu, the
> 'solution' brought forth in that discussion, to investigate and handle
> the issue manually, is not a serious option.
>
> Did you know that you can work around the problem by creating an
> override file at /etc/systemd/system/sssd.service?
>
Thanks for pointing that out! I should've thought of it, but I guess my
brain stopped once I had fixed it in /lib.

'gards
Jurjen

> Nevertheless we should fix this in Xenial for the benefit of all other
> users who hit this, but now that you know the workaround should stop the
> bug affecting you easily enough.
>
> ** Also affects: sssd (Ubuntu Xenial)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Changed in: sssd (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Fix Released
>
> ** Changed in: sssd (Ubuntu Xenial)
> Status: New => Triaged
>
> ** Changed in: sssd (Ubuntu Xenial)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> ** Tags added: server-next
>