najmuddin/sssd

A daemon to manage identity, authentication and authorization for centrally-managed systems.

SSSD - System Security Services Daemon

Introduction

SSSD provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms such as LDAP, Kerberos or FreeIPA. It provides an NSS and PAM interface toward the system and a pluggable backend system to connect to multiple different account sources.

More information about SSSD can be found on its project page - https://pagure.io/SSSD/sssd/

Downloading SSSD

SSSD is shipped as a binary package by most Linux distributions. If you want to obtain the latest source files, please navigate to the Releases folder on pagure

Releases

SSSD maintains two release streams - stable and LTM. Releases designated as LTM are long-term maintenance releases and will see bugfixes and security patches for a longer time than other releases.

The list of all releases is maintained together with SSSD documentation

Building and installation from source

Please see the our developer documentation

Documentation

The most up-to-date documentation can be found at https://docs.pagure.org/SSSD.sssd/

Its source code is hosted at https://pagure.io/SSSD/docs

Submitting bugs

Please file an issue in the SSSD pagure instance. Make sure to follow the guide on reporting SSSD bugs

Licensing

Please see the file called COPYING.

Social networks

We maintain our presence on Twitter and Google plus

Contacts

There are several ways to contact us:

• the sssd-devel mailing list: Development of the System Security Services Daemon
• the sssd-users mailing list: End-user discussions about the System Security Services Daemon
• the #sssd and #freeipa IRC channels on freenode:
  • irc://irc.freenode.net/sssd
  • irc://irc.freenode.net/freeipa