[SSSD] SSSD Configuration to resolve local users

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Wed Feb 12 20:59:58 UTC 2014


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:37:35PM -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 02/12/2014 03:36 AM, Abhishek Singh wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >My main motive is to show a demo of SSSD. Just want to know how it
> >works. Both can work. IMO later will be better - to provide local
> >users in addition to the system accounts stored in /etc/passwd.
> 
> The main purpose of SSSD is to connect system to remote identity server.
> The simplest way to demonstrate is to install IPA.
> yum ipa-server
> ipa-server-install
> 
> This will install and configure SSSD. You will the nwould be able to
> add users to IPA and authenticate using SSSD by for example loging
> as different users.
> 
> This is IMO the fastest and simplest path. Just create an IPA VM.

I agree. There *is* a local provider, but it makes little sense right
now outside of testing.



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