The command system-config-authentication results a traceback.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Cannot start system-config-authentication GUI.

  • Here is the error:

# authconfig --test
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/authconfig", line 923, in <module>
    sys.exit(module.run())
  File "/usr/sbin/authconfig", line 499, in run
    self.readAuthInfo()
  File "/usr/sbin/authconfig", line 342, in readAuthInfo
    self.info = authinfo.read(self.printError)
  File "/usr/share/authconfig/authinfo.py", line 921, in read
    info.read()
  File "/usr/share/authconfig/authinfo.py", line 2208, in read
    self.readSSSD(ref)
  File "/usr/share/authconfig/authinfo.py", line 1629, in readSSSD
    self.sssdConfig.new_config()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SSSDConfig/__init__.py", line 1365, in new_config
    raise AlreadyInitializedError
SSSDConfig.AlreadyInitializedError

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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