On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 3:20 AM Daniil Kirilyuk
<daniel.kirilyuk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We're developing a java application, which should authenticate
users
against both LDAP and custom formatted files containing user
information. Both username/password and certificate authentication
are planned to be supported. Our application should run mainly on
RHEL. We were estimating the possibility to use SSSD for this
purpose. After some investigation it seems, that SSSD can be called
from java code only via D-Bus. It also seems, that it can be used
mainly for fetching user information. but not for authentication.
If your application runs primarily on RHEL, it might make more sense
to use PAM instead (maybe via JNI?), instead of hardcoding the use of
sssd. (Typically, on Linux systems, sssd is called via PAM.)
That way, system administrators would have near-complete flexibility
in configuring your application’s authentication, because they could
do so via PAM… like virtually every other Linux application that needs
to perform user authentication.