In this video, I want to tell you about SSSD, also known as SSSD.
So what is this doing?
Well, the System Services Security Daemon, or SSSD, is used to authenticate on external
authentication providers.
It's what you use if you want to redirect your Linux authentication to an LDAP server
or an Active Directory server, or even a legacy NIST, which is very old and probably never
to be seen again.
You can configure access to SSSD in etcsssd.conf.
Let's check it out.
So going into etcssd, and there you will find, oh, it's a conf.d nowadays, only drop-in files,
and no configuration.
Oh boy, did that change?
That always happens in Linux, but fortunately, we have find, minus name, sssd.conf.
And I don't want to see any errors, I just want to see results.
So yeah, apparently, this is a usual lib64, sssd.conf, sssd.conf.
And let's do less on it, because it's a usual lib64.
That's not typically the location where you are going to modify.
But I want to have a quick look at it.
And what do we see here?
Well, here we see how it is configured.
And the services is only set to NSS and PAM.
And the domains is shadow-utils.
This is what is taking care of local authentication.
If you are going to connect your system to an Active Directory, and you are using auth-config
to set up your system, you will find the custom sssd.conf is in etc.sssd.sssd.conf.
Right now, we don't have any, and that makes sense, because we are dealing with internal
authentication only.
Do not expect anything too serious about SSSD, but like many things in Linux Plus, you need
to know that it exists and what it is doing.