Sumit,
thankyou for the advice here.
I reduced the password age value, and with the higher logging level the
password renewal using adcli was successful.
Thanks again.

On 4 July 2018 at 10:03, John Hearns <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thankyou Sumit. Indeed I do have adcli installed, and I am investigating
> this issue usign the higher log level which you suggest.
>
> I think this is a problem with domain names.
> When I use msktutil to renew the machine password I must explicitly run
> msktutil ..auto-update --computer-name  myhostname
>
> This is because  the DNS domain of my workstation does not match the
> Active Directory realm name
>
>
>
>
> On 4 July 2018 at 08:48, Sumit Bose <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 05:12:25PM +0200, John Hearns wrote:
>> > After 30 days of running sssd I found that my test workstation no longer
>> > connected to the domain.
>> > The machine account password had timed out.
>> > I now run a daily cron job using msktutil wihch will auto-update the
>> > password.
>> >
>> > However I should not have to do this. sssd should update the machine
>> > password.
>> >
>> > I can see entries in the logs such that the machine account password
>> > renewal task is enabled.
>> > Then:
>> >
>> > [be_ptask_execute] (0x0400): Task [AD machine account password renewal]:
>> > executing task, timeout 60 seconds
>> >
>> > How though can I see if this taks is successful or not?
>> > I realise that if the machine account is less than 30 days old the task
>> > probably silently completes OK without any logging.
>>
>> Do you have adcli installed?
>>
>> If you set 'debug_level=7' or higher in the [domain/...] section of
>> sssd.conf you should be able to find the debug output of adcli in the
>> logs, it will start with '--- adcli output start---'.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> bye,
>> Sumit
>>
>> >
>> > The version of sssd is 16.1 running on Ubuntu
>> >
>> >
>> > John Hearns
>>
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