That is entirely correct.  I though the access checks were done in auth, not in account.  My mistake! 

Sincerely,
Zach

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 08:10:35PM -0000, zachhh@temple.edu wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> This is more of a feature request, and I don't know if this is the right venue to ask.  If not, kindly direct me to the proper place.
>
> The sssd configuration separates identity, authentication, and access providers.   It would be nice to specify that only the access provider be enforced in a particular PAM stack.  Generically, this is the authn vs authz issue.  I would like to be able to use sssd for authz exclusively in some instances where other authentication is deemed satisfactory.
>
> Use cases:
> ssh with public key + 2nd factor token authentication + sssd access filtering
> su without password + sssd access filtering
> custom service with external authentication + sssd access filtering
>
> I haven't delved too deeply into the sssd source to see how hard it would be to implement something like a pam argument authz_only that skips the auth provider, but it seems like it should be reasonable.
>
> Thoughts?

Since this option would be set in the PAM service file anyway, does it
make sense to even include pam_sss.so in the PAM stack's auth session?
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