RFE #744132 opened in the RHEL bugzillaI'll take care of that sometime soon.
RFE #744197 opened in the RHEL bugzilla
Yeah, I'm convinced that we need to allow a configurable idle timeout for the SSSD LDAP connections. Please log an enhancement ticket upstream at https://fedorahosted.org/sssd if you have a Fedora account. If not, feel free to file a bug on whichever distro is appropriate, and post it here.