I've been using sssd + AD to do auth for a few years now. Offline authentication is enabled and works normally. In that time I've upgraded my Ubuntu laptop several times, and each time I noticed that after the update, I cannot log in unless I'm on the corp network with direct access to AD. That hasn't really been a problem until now. I'm working from home over vpn all the time and don't have to option of going in to get on the corp network.
I know the workaround is to use a local account, get on the VPN, authenticate with my AD account and populate the cache, but IT doesn't like me creating local users and it's a pain. I haven't tried the latest update yet (19.10 -> 20.04, sssd currently 2.2.0).
Since something in the upgrade process is presumably destroying the cache, I was wondering if there's a "nice" way around this? Ubuntu upgrades for sssd seem like they're just upgrading sssd via apt, so I'm wondering why these major updates seem to operate differently from minor ones, and if that's intentional.
Thanks!