[SSSD] RFC: 1.13.1 release notes

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Thu Sep 24 14:40:32 UTC 2015


Hi,

I prepared the 1.13.1 release notes:
    https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/Releases/Notes-1.13.1

For convenience, the text is copied below. Please reply with suggested
changes, or just edit the wiki page.

== Highlights ==
 * Support for Smart Card authentication was added
 * The PAM prompting was enhanced so that when Two-Factor Authentication is used, both factors (password and token) can be entered separately on separate prompts. At the same time, only the long-term password is cached, so offline access would still work using the long term password.
 * A new command line tool `sss_override` is present in this release. The tools allows to override attributes on the SSSD side. It's helpful in environment where e.g. some hosts need to have a different view of POSIX attributes than others. Please note that the overrides are stored in the cache as well, so removing the cache will also remove the overrides.
 * New methods were added to the SSSD D-Bus interface. Notably support for looking up a user by certificate and looking up multiple users using a wildcard was added. Please see the interface introspection or the design pages for full details.
 * Several enhancements to the dynamic DNS update code. Notably, clients that update multiple interfaces work better with this release
 * This release supports authenticating againt a KDC proxy
 * The fail over code was enhanced so that if a trusted domain is not reachable, only that domain will be marked as inactive but the backed would stay in online mode
 * Several fixes to the GPO access control code are present.

== Packaging Changes ==
 * The Smart Card authentication feature requires a helper process `p11_child` that needs to be marked as setgid if SSSD needs to be able to. Please note the `p11_child` requires the NSS crypto library at the moment.
 * The `sss_override` tool was added along with its own manpage
 * The upstream RPM can now build on RHEL/CentOS 6.7

== Documentation Changes ==
 * It is now possible to specify a comma-separated list of interfaces in the `dyndns_iface` option
 * The !InfoPipe responder and the LDAP provider gained a new option `wildcard_lookup` that specifies an upper limit on the number of entries that can be returned with a wildcard lookup
 * A new option `dyndns_server` was added. This option allows to attempt a fallback DNS update against a specific DNS server. Please note this option only works as a fallback, the first attempt will always be performed against autodiscovered servers.
 * The PAM responder gained a new option `ca_db` that allows the storage of trusted CA certificates to be specified
 * The time the `p11_child` is allowed to operate can be specified using a new option `p11_child_timeout`.


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