The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) feature provides access on a client system to remote identity and authentication providers. The SSSD acts as an intermediary between local clients and any back-end provider that you configure.
The benefits of configuring SSSD include:
Reduced system load
Clients do not have to contact the identification or authentication servers directly.
Offline authentication
You can configure SSSD to maintain a cache of user identities and credentials.
Single sign-on access
If you configure SSSD to store network credentials, users need only authenticate once per session with the local system to access network resources.
For more information, see the authconfig(8)
,
pam_sss(8)
, sssd(8)
, and
sssd.conf(5)
manual pages and
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/.