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NAME
sssd.conf - the configuration file for SSSD
FILE FORMAT
The file has an ini-style syntax and consists of sections and parameters. A section begins
with the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next section
begins. An example of section with single and multi-valued parameters:
[section]
key = value
key2 = value2,value3
The data types used are string (no quotes needed), integer and bool (with values of
“TRUE/FALSE”).
A comment line starts with a hash sign (“#”) or a semicolon (“;”). Inline comments are not
supported.
All sections can have an optional description parameter. Its function is only as a label
for the section.
sssd.conf must be a regular file, owned by root and only root may read from or write to
the file.
CONFIGURATION SNIPPETS FROM INCLUDE DIRECTORY
The configuration file sssd.conf will include configuration snippets using the include
directory conf.d. This feature is available if SSSD was compiled with libini version 1.3.0
or later.
Any file placed in conf.d that ends in “.conf” and does not begin with a dot (“.”) will be
used together with sssd.conf to configure SSSD.
The configuration snippets from conf.d have higher priority than sssd.conf and will
override sssd.conf when conflicts occur. If several snippets are present in conf.d, then
they are included in alphabetical order (based on locale). Files included later have
higher priority. Numerical prefixes (01_snippet.conf, 02_snippet.conf etc.) can help
visualize the priority (higher number means higher priority).
The snippet files require the same owner and permissions as sssd.conf. Which are by
default root:root and 0600.
GENERAL OPTIONS
Following options are usable in more than one configuration sections.
Options usable in all sections
debug_level (integer)
SSSD supports two representations for specifying the debug level. The simplest is to
specify a decimal value from 0-9, which represents enabling that level and all
lower-level debug messages. The more comprehensive option is to specify a hexadecimal
bitmask to enable or disable specific levels (such as if you wish to suppress a
level).
Please note that each SSSD service logs into its own log file. Also please note that
enabling “debug_level” in the “[sssd]” section only enables debugging just for the
sssd process itself, not for the responder or provider processes. The “debug_level”
parameter should be added to all sections that you wish to produce debug logs from.
In addition to changing the log level in the config file using the “debug_level”
parameter, which is persistent, but requires SSSD restart, it is also possible to
change the debug level on the fly using the sss_debuglevel(8) tool.
Currently supported debug levels:
0, 0x0010: Fatal failures. Anything that would prevent SSSD from starting up or causes
it to cease running.
1, 0x0020: Critical failures. An error that doesn't kill SSSD, but one that indicates
that at least one major feature is not going to work properly.
2, 0x0040: Serious failures. An error announcing that a particular request or
operation has failed.
3, 0x0080: Minor failures. These are the errors that would percolate down to cause the
operation failure of 2.
4, 0x0100: Configuration settings.
5, 0x0200: Function data.
6, 0x0400: Trace messages for operation functions.
7, 0x1000: Trace messages for internal control functions.
8, 0x2000: Contents of function-internal variables that may be interesting.
9, 0x4000: Extremely low-level tracing information.
9, 0x20000: Performance and statistical data, please note that due to the way requests
are processed internally the logged execution time of a request might be longer than
it actually was.
10, 0x10000: Even more low-level libldb tracing information. Almost never really
required.
To log required bitmask debug levels, simply add their numbers together as shown in
following examples:
Example: To log fatal failures, critical failures, serious failures and function data
use 0x0270.
Example: To log fatal failures, configuration settings, function data, trace messages
for internal control functions use 0x1310.
Note: The bitmask format of debug levels was introduced in 1.7.0.
Default: 0x0070 (i.e. fatal, critical and serious failures; corresponds to setting 2
in decimal notation)
debug (integer)
SSSD 1.14 and later also includes the debug alias for debug_level as a convenience
feature. If both are specified, the value of debug_level will be used.
debug_timestamps (bool)
Add a timestamp to the debug messages. If journald is enabled for SSSD debug logging
this option is ignored.
Default: true
debug_microseconds (bool)
Add microseconds to the timestamp in debug messages. If journald is enabled for SSSD
debug logging this option is ignored.
Default: false
debug_backtrace_enabled (bool)
Enable debug backtrace.
In case SSSD is run with debug_level less than 9, everything is logged to a ring
buffer in memory and flushed to a log file on any error up to and including
`min(0x0040, debug_level)` (i.e. if debug_level is explicitly set to 0 or 1 then only
those error levels will trigger backtrace, otherwise up to 2).
Feature is only supported for `logger == files` (i.e. setting doesn't have effect for
other logger types).
Default: true
Options usable in SERVICE and DOMAIN sections
timeout (integer)
Timeout in seconds between heartbeats for this service. This is used to ensure that
the process is alive and capable of answering requests. Note that after three missed
heartbeats the process will terminate itself.
Default: 10
SPECIAL SECTIONS
The [sssd] section
Individual pieces of SSSD functionality are provided by special SSSD services that are
started and stopped together with SSSD. The services are managed by a special service
frequently called “monitor”. The “[sssd]” section is used to configure the monitor as well
as some other important options like the identity domains.
Section parameters
config_file_version (integer)
Indicates what is the syntax of the config file. SSSD 0.6.0 and later use version 2.
services
Comma separated list of services that are started when sssd itself starts. The
services' list is optional on platforms where systemd is supported, as they will
either be socket or D-Bus activated when needed.
Supported services: nss, pam , sudo , autofs , ssh , pac , ifp
By default, all services are disabled and the administrator must enable the ones
allowed to be used by executing: "systemctl enable sssd-@service@.socket".
reconnection_retries (integer)
Number of times services should attempt to reconnect in the event of a Data Provider
crash or restart before they give up
Default: 3
domains
A domain is a database containing user information. SSSD can use more domains at the
same time, but at least one must be configured or SSSD won't start. This parameter
describes the list of domains in the order you want them to be queried. A domain name
is recommended to contain only alphanumeric ASCII characters, dashes, dots and
underscores. '/' character is forbidden.
re_expression (string)
Default regular expression that describes how to parse the string containing user name
and domain into these components.
Each domain can have an individual regular expression configured. For some ID
providers there are also default regular expressions. See DOMAIN SECTIONS for more
info on these regular expressions.
full_name_format (string)
A printf(3)-compatible format that describes how to compose a fully qualified name
from user name and domain name components.
The following expansions are supported:
%1$s
user name
%2$s
domain name as specified in the SSSD config file.
%3$s
domain flat name. Mostly usable for Active Directory domains, both directly
configured or discovered via IPA trusts.
Each domain can have an individual format string configured. See DOMAIN SECTIONS for
more info on this option.
monitor_resolv_conf (boolean)
Controls if SSSD should monitor the state of resolv.conf to identify when it needs to
update its internal DNS resolver.
Default: true
try_inotify (boolean)
By default, SSSD will attempt to use inotify to monitor configuration files changes
and will fall back to polling every five seconds if inotify cannot be used.
There are some limited situations where it is preferred that we should skip even
trying to use inotify. In these rare cases, this option should be set to 'false'
Default: true on platforms where inotify is supported. False on other platforms.
Note: this option will have no effect on platforms where inotify is unavailable. On
these platforms, polling will always be used.
krb5_rcache_dir (string)
Directory on the filesystem where SSSD should store Kerberos replay cache files.
This option accepts a special value __LIBKRB5_DEFAULTS__ that will instruct SSSD to
let libkrb5 decide the appropriate location for the replay cache.
Default: Distribution-specific and specified at build-time. (__LIBKRB5_DEFAULTS__ if
not configured)
default_domain_suffix (string)
This string will be used as a default domain name for all names without a domain name
component. The main use case is environments where the primary domain is intended for
managing host policies and all users are located in a trusted domain. The option
allows those users to log in just with their user name without giving a domain name as
well.
Please note that if this option is set all users from the primary domain have to use
their fully qualified name, e.g. user@domain.name, to log in. Setting this option
changes default of use_fully_qualified_names to True. It is not allowed to use this
option together with use_fully_qualified_names set to False. One exception from this
rule are domains with “id_provider=files” that always try to match the behaviour of
nss_files and therefore their output is not qualified even when the
default_domain_suffix option is used.
Default: not set
override_space (string)
This parameter will replace spaces (space bar) with the given character for user and
group names. e.g. (_). User name "john doe" will be "john_doe" This feature was added
to help compatibility with shell scripts that have difficulty handling spaces, due to
the default field separator in the shell.
Please note it is a configuration error to use a replacement character that might be
used in user or group names. If a name contains the replacement character SSSD tries
to return the unmodified name but in general the result of a lookup is undefined.
Default: not set (spaces will not be replaced)
certificate_verification (string)
With this parameter the certificate verification can be tuned with a comma separated
list of options. Supported options are:
no_ocsp
Disables Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) checks. This might be needed if
the OCSP servers defined in the certificate are not reachable from the client.
soft_ocsp
If a connection cannot be established to an OCSP responder the OCSP check is
skipped. This option should be used to allow authentication when the system is
offline and the OCSP responder cannot be reached.
ocsp_dgst
Digest (hash) function used to create the certificate ID for the OCSP request.
Allowed values are:
• sha1
• sha256
• sha384
• sha512
Default: sha1 (to allow compatibility with RFC5019-compliant responder)
no_verification
Disables verification completely. This option should only be used for testing.
partial_chain
Allow verification to succeed even if a complete chain cannot be built to a
self-signed trust-anchor, provided it is possible to construct a chain to a
trusted certificate that might not be self-signed.
ocsp_default_responder=URL
Sets the OCSP default responder which should be used instead of the one mentioned
in the certificate. URL must be replaced with the URL of the OCSP default
responder e.g. http://example.com:80/ocsp.
ocsp_default_responder_signing_cert=NAME
This option is currently ignored. All needed certificates must be available in the
PEM file given by pam_cert_db_path.
crl_file=/PATH/TO/CRL/FILE
Use the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) from the given file during the
verification of the certificate. The CRL must be given in PEM format, see
crl(1ssl) for details.
soft_crl
If a Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is expired ignore the CRL checks for the
related certificates. This option should be used to allow authentication when the
system is offline and the CRL cannot be renewed.
Unknown options are reported but ignored.
Default: not set, i.e. do not restrict certificate verification
disable_netlink (boolean)
SSSD hooks into the netlink interface to monitor changes to routes, addresses, links
and trigger certain actions.
The SSSD state changes caused by netlink events may be undesirable and can be disabled
by setting this option to 'true'
Default: false (netlink changes are detected)
enable_files_domain (boolean)
When this option is enabled, SSSD prepends an implicit domain with “id_provider=files”
before any explicitly configured domains.
Default: false
domain_resolution_order
Comma separated list of domains and subdomains representing the lookup order that will
be followed. The list doesn't have to include all possible domains as the missing
domains will be looked up based on the order they're presented in the “domains”
configuration option. The subdomains which are not listed as part of “lookup_order”
will be looked up in a random order for each parent domain.
Please, note that when this option is set the output format of all commands is always
fully-qualified even when using short names for input , for all users but the ones
managed by the files provider. In case the administrator wants the output not
fully-qualified, the full_name_format option can be used as shown below:
“full_name_format=%1$s” However, keep in mind that during login, login applications
often canonicalize the username by calling getpwnam(3) which, if a shortname is
returned for a qualified input (while trying to reach a user which exists in multiple
domains) might re-route the login attempt into the domain which uses shortnames,
making this workaround totally not recommended in cases where usernames may overlap
between domains.
Default: Not set
implicit_pac_responder (boolean)
The PAC responder is enabled automatically for the IPA and AD provider to evaluate and
check the PAC. If it has to be disabled set this option to 'false'.
Default: true
core_dumpable (boolean)
This option can be used for general system hardening: setting it to 'false' forbids
core dumps for all SSSD processes to avoid leaking plain text passwords. See man page
prctl:PR_SET_DUMPABLE for details.
Default: true
passkey_verification (string)
With this parameter the passkey verification can be tuned with a comma separated list
of options. Supported options are:
user_verification (boolean)
Enable or disable the user verification (i.e. PIN, fingerprint) during
authentication.
The default is that the key settings decide what to do. In the IPA or kerberos
pre-authentication case, this value will be overwritten by the server.
SERVICES SECTIONS
Settings that can be used to configure different services are described in this section.
They should reside in the [$NAME] section, for example, for NSS service, the section would
be “[nss]”
General service configuration options
These options can be used to configure any service.
reconnection_retries (integer)
Number of times services should attempt to reconnect in the event of a Data Provider
crash or restart before they give up
Default: 3
fd_limit
This option specifies the maximum number of file descriptors that may be opened at one
time by this SSSD process. On systems where SSSD is granted the CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
capability, this will be an absolute setting. On systems without this capability, the
resulting value will be the lower value of this or the limits.conf "hard" limit.
Default: 8192 (or limits.conf "hard" limit)
client_idle_timeout
This option specifies the number of seconds that a client of an SSSD process can hold
onto a file descriptor without communicating on it. This value is limited in order to
avoid resource exhaustion on the system. The timeout can't be shorter than 10 seconds.
If a lower value is configured, it will be adjusted to 10 seconds.
Default: 60, KCM: 300
offline_timeout (integer)
When SSSD switches to offline mode the amount of time before it tries to go back
online will increase based upon the time spent disconnected. By default SSSD uses
incremental behaviour to calculate delay in between retries. So, the wait time for a
given retry will be longer than the wait time for the previous ones. After each
unsuccessful attempt to go online, the new interval is recalculated by the following:
new_delay = Minimum(old_delay * 2, offline_timeout_max) +
random[0...offline_timeout_random_offset]
The offline_timeout default value is 60. The offline_timeout_max default value is
3600. The offline_timeout_random_offset default value is 30. The end result is amount
of seconds before next retry.
Note that the maximum length of each interval is defined by offline_timeout_max (apart
of random part).
Default: 60
offline_timeout_max (integer)
Controls by how much the time between attempts to go online can be incremented
following unsuccessful attempts to go online.
A value of 0 disables the incrementing behaviour.
The value of this parameter should be set in correlation to offline_timeout parameter
value.
With offline_timeout set to 60 (default value) there is no point in setting
offlinet_timeout_max to less than 120 as it will saturate instantly. General rule here
should be to set offline_timeout_max to at least 4 times offline_timeout.
Although a value between 0 and offline_timeout may be specified, it has the effect of
overriding the offline_timeout value so is of little use.
Default: 3600
offline_timeout_random_offset (integer)
When SSSD is in offline mode it keeps probing backend servers in specified time
intervals:
new_delay = Minimum(old_delay * 2, offline_timeout_max) +
random[0...offline_timeout_random_offset]
This parameter controls the value of the random offset used for the above equation.
Final random_offset value will be random number in range:
[0 - offline_timeout_random_offset]
A value of 0 disables the random offset addition.
Default: 30
responder_idle_timeout
This option specifies the number of seconds that an SSSD responder process can be up
without being used. This value is limited in order to avoid resource exhaustion on the
system. The minimum acceptable value for this option is 60 seconds. Setting this
option to 0 (zero) means that no timeout will be set up to the responder. This option
only has effect when SSSD is built with systemd support and when services are either
socket or D-Bus activated.
Default: 300
cache_first
This option specifies whether the responder should query all caches before querying
the Data Providers.
Default: false
NSS configuration options
These options can be used to configure the Name Service Switch (NSS) service.
enum_cache_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss cache enumerations (requests for info about all users)
Default: 120
entry_cache_nowait_percentage (integer)
The entry cache can be set to automatically update entries in the background if they
are requested beyond a percentage of the entry_cache_timeout value for the domain.
For example, if the domain's entry_cache_timeout is set to 30s and
entry_cache_nowait_percentage is set to 50 (percent), entries that come in after 15
seconds past the last cache update will be returned immediately, but the SSSD will go
and update the cache on its own, so that future requests will not need to block
waiting for a cache update.
Valid values for this option are 0-99 and represent a percentage of the
entry_cache_timeout for each domain. For performance reasons, this percentage will
never reduce the nowait timeout to less than 10 seconds. (0 disables this feature)
Default: 50
entry_negative_timeout (integer)
Specifies for how many seconds nss_sss should cache negative cache hits (that is,
queries for invalid database entries, like nonexistent ones) before asking the back
end again.
Default: 15
local_negative_timeout (integer)
Specifies for how many seconds nss_sss should keep local users and groups in negative
cache before trying to look it up in the back end again. Setting the option to 0
disables this feature.
Default: 14400 (4 hours)
filter_users, filter_groups (string)
Exclude certain users or groups from being fetched from the sss NSS database. This is
particularly useful for system accounts. This option can also be set per-domain or
include fully-qualified names to filter only users from the particular domain or by a
user principal name (UPN).
NOTE: The filter_groups option doesn't affect inheritance of nested group members,
since filtering happens after they are propagated for returning via NSS. E.g. a group
having a member group filtered out will still have the member users of the latter
listed.
Default: root
filter_users_in_groups (bool)
If you want filtered user still be group members set this option to false.
Default: true
override_homedir (string)
Override the user's home directory. You can either provide an absolute value or a
template. In the template, the following sequences are substituted:
%u
login name
%U
UID number
%d
domain name
%f
fully qualified user name (user@domain)
%l
The first letter of the login name.
%P
UPN - User Principal Name (name@REALM)
%o
The original home directory retrieved from the identity provider.
%h
The original home directory retrieved from the identity provider, but in lower
case.
%H
The value of configure option homedir_substring.
%%
a literal '%'
This option can also be set per-domain.
example:
override_homedir = /home/%u
Default: Not set (SSSD will use the value retrieved from LDAP)
Please note, the home directory from a specific override for the user, either locally
(see sss_override(8)) or centrally managed IPA id-overrides, has a higher precedence
and will be used instead of the value given by override_homedir.
homedir_substring (string)
The value of this option will be used in the expansion of the override_homedir option
if the template contains the format string %H. An LDAP directory entry can directly
contain this template so that this option can be used to expand the home directory
path for each client machine (or operating system). It can be set per-domain or
globally in the [nss] section. A value specified in a domain section will override one
set in the [nss] section.
Default: /home
fallback_homedir (string)
Set a default template for a user's home directory if one is not specified explicitly
by the domain's data provider.
The available values for this option are the same as for override_homedir.
example:
fallback_homedir = /home/%u
Default: not set (no substitution for unset home directories)
override_shell (string)
Override the login shell for all users. This option supersedes any other shell options
if it takes effect and can be set either in the [nss] section or per-domain.
Default: not set (SSSD will use the value retrieved from LDAP)
allowed_shells (string)
Restrict user shell to one of the listed values. The order of evaluation is:
1. If the shell is present in “/etc/shells”, it is used.
2. If the shell is in the allowed_shells list but not in “/etc/shells”, use the value
of the shell_fallback parameter.
3. If the shell is not in the allowed_shells list and not in “/etc/shells”, a nologin
shell is used.
The wildcard (*) can be used to allow any shell.
The (*) is useful if you want to use shell_fallback in case that user's shell is not
in “/etc/shells” and maintaining list of all allowed shells in allowed_shells would be
to much overhead.
An empty string for shell is passed as-is to libc.
The “/etc/shells” is only read on SSSD start up, which means that a restart of the
SSSD is required in case a new shell is installed.
Default: Not set. The user shell is automatically used.
vetoed_shells (string)
Replace any instance of these shells with the shell_fallback
shell_fallback (string)
The default shell to use if an allowed shell is not installed on the machine.
Default: /bin/sh
default_shell
The default shell to use if the provider does not return one during lookup. This
option can be specified globally in the [nss] section or per-domain.
Default: not set (Return NULL if no shell is specified and rely on libc to substitute
something sensible when necessary, usually /bin/sh)
get_domains_timeout (int)
Specifies time in seconds for which the list of subdomains will be considered valid.
Default: 60
memcache_timeout (integer)
Specifies time in seconds for which records in the in-memory cache will be valid.
Setting this option to zero will disable the in-memory cache.
Default: 300
WARNING: Disabling the in-memory cache will have significant negative impact on SSSD's
performance and should only be used for testing.
NOTE: If the environment variable SSS_NSS_USE_MEMCACHE is set to "NO", client
applications will not use the fast in-memory cache.
memcache_size_passwd (integer)
Size (in megabytes) of the data table allocated inside fast in-memory cache for passwd
requests. Setting the size to 0 will disable the passwd in-memory cache.
Default: 8
WARNING: Disabled or too small in-memory cache can have significant negative impact on
SSSD's performance.
NOTE: If the environment variable SSS_NSS_USE_MEMCACHE is set to "NO", client
applications will not use the fast in-memory cache.
memcache_size_group (integer)
Size (in megabytes) of the data table allocated inside fast in-memory cache for group
requests. Setting the size to 0 will disable the group in-memory cache.
Default: 6
WARNING: Disabled or too small in-memory cache can have significant negative impact on
SSSD's performance.
NOTE: If the environment variable SSS_NSS_USE_MEMCACHE is set to "NO", client
applications will not use the fast in-memory cache.
memcache_size_initgroups (integer)
Size (in megabytes) of the data table allocated inside fast in-memory cache for
initgroups requests. Setting the size to 0 will disable the initgroups in-memory
cache.
Default: 10
WARNING: Disabled or too small in-memory cache can have significant negative impact on
SSSD's performance.
NOTE: If the environment variable SSS_NSS_USE_MEMCACHE is set to "NO", client
applications will not use the fast in-memory cache.
memcache_size_sid (integer)
Size (in megabytes) of the data table allocated inside fast in-memory cache for SID
related requests. Only SID-by-ID and ID-by-SID requests are currently cached in fast
in-memory cache. Setting the size to 0 will disable the SID in-memory cache.
Default: 6
WARNING: Disabled or too small in-memory cache can have significant negative impact on
SSSD's performance.
NOTE: If the environment variable SSS_NSS_USE_MEMCACHE is set to "NO", client
applications will not use the fast in-memory cache.
user_attributes (string)
Some of the additional NSS responder requests can return more attributes than just the
POSIX ones defined by the NSS interface. The list of attributes is controlled by this
option. It is handled the same way as the “user_attributes” option of the InfoPipe
responder (see sssd-ifp(5) for details) but with no default values.
To make configuration more easy the NSS responder will check the InfoPipe option if it
is not set for the NSS responder.
Default: not set, fallback to InfoPipe option
pwfield (string)
The value that NSS operations that return users or groups will return for the
“password” field.
Default: “*”
Note: This option can also be set per-domain which overwrites the value in [nss]
section.
Default: “not set” (remote domains), “x” (the files domain), “x” (proxy domain with
nss_files and sssd-shadowutils target)
PAM configuration options
These options can be used to configure the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) service.
offline_credentials_expiration (integer)
If the authentication provider is offline, how long should we allow cached logins (in
days since the last successful online login).
Default: 0 (No limit)
offline_failed_login_attempts (integer)
If the authentication provider is offline, how many failed login attempts are allowed.
Default: 0 (No limit)
offline_failed_login_delay (integer)
The time in minutes which has to pass after offline_failed_login_attempts has been
reached before a new login attempt is possible.
If set to 0 the user cannot authenticate offline if offline_failed_login_attempts has
been reached. Only a successful online authentication can enable offline
authentication again.
Default: 5
pam_verbosity (integer)
Controls what kind of messages are shown to the user during authentication. The higher
the number to more messages are displayed.
Currently sssd supports the following values:
0: do not show any message
1: show only important messages
2: show informational messages
3: show all messages and debug information
Default: 1
pam_response_filter (string)
A comma separated list of strings which allows to remove (filter) data sent by the PAM
responder to pam_sss PAM module. There are different kind of responses sent to pam_sss
e.g. messages displayed to the user or environment variables which should be set by
pam_sss.
While messages already can be controlled with the help of the pam_verbosity option
this option allows to filter out other kind of responses as well.
Currently the following filters are supported:
ENV
Do not send any environment variables to any service.
ENV:var_name
Do not send environment variable var_name to any service.
ENV:var_name:service
Do not send environment variable var_name to service.
The list of strings can either be the list of filters which would set this list of
filters and overwrite the defaults. Or each element of the list can be prefixed by a
'+' or '-' character which would add the filter to the existing default or remove it
from the defaults, respectively. Please note that either all list elements must have a
'+' or '-' prefix or none. It is considered as an error to mix both styles.
Default: ENV:KRB5CCNAME:sudo, ENV:KRB5CCNAME:sudo-i
Example: -ENV:KRB5CCNAME:sudo-i will remove the filter from the default list
pam_id_timeout (integer)
For any PAM request while SSSD is online, the SSSD will attempt to immediately update
the cached identity information for the user in order to ensure that authentication
takes place with the latest information.
A complete PAM conversation may perform multiple PAM requests, such as account
management and session opening. This option controls (on a per-client-application
basis) how long (in seconds) we can cache the identity information to avoid excessive
round-trips to the identity provider.
Default: 5
pam_pwd_expiration_warning (integer)
Display a warning N days before the password expires.
Please note that the backend server has to provide information about the expiration
time of the password. If this information is missing, sssd cannot display a warning.
If zero is set, then this filter is not applied, i.e. if the expiration warning was
received from backend server, it will automatically be displayed.
This setting can be overridden by setting pwd_expiration_warning for a particular
domain.
Default: 0
get_domains_timeout (int)
Specifies time in seconds for which the list of subdomains will be considered valid.
Default: 60
pam_trusted_users (string)
Specifies the comma-separated list of UID values or user names that are allowed to run
PAM conversations against trusted domains. Users not included in this list can only
access domains marked as public with “pam_public_domains”. User names are resolved to
UIDs at startup.
Default: All users are considered trusted by default
Please note that UID 0 is always allowed to access the PAM responder even in case it
is not in the pam_trusted_users list.
pam_public_domains (string)
Specifies the comma-separated list of domain names that are accessible even to
untrusted users.
Two special values for pam_public_domains option are defined:
all (Untrusted users are allowed to access all domains in PAM responder.)
none (Untrusted users are not allowed to access any domains PAM in responder.)
Default: none
pam_account_expired_message (string)
Allows a custom expiration message to be set, replacing the default 'Permission
denied' message.
Note: Please be aware that message is only printed for the SSH service unless
pam_verbosity is set to 3 (show all messages and debug information).
example:
pam_account_expired_message = Account expired, please contact help desk.
Default: none
pam_account_locked_message (string)
Allows a custom lockout message to be set, replacing the default 'Permission denied'
message.
example:
pam_account_locked_message = Account locked, please contact help desk.
Default: none
pam_passkey_auth (bool)
Enable passkey device based authentication.
Default: False
passkey_debug_libfido2 (bool)
Enable libfido2 library debug messages.
Default: False
pam_cert_auth (bool)
Enable certificate based Smartcard authentication. Since this requires additional
communication with the Smartcard which will delay the authentication process this
option is disabled by default.
Default: False
pam_cert_db_path (string)
The path to the certificate database.
Default:
• /etc/sssd/pki/sssd_auth_ca_db.pem (path to a file with trusted CA certificates in
PEM format)
pam_cert_verification (string)
With this parameter the PAM certificate verification can be tuned with a comma
separated list of options that override the “certificate_verification” value in
“[sssd]” section. Supported options are the same of “certificate_verification”.
example:
pam_cert_verification = partial_chain
Default: not set, i.e. use default “certificate_verification” option defined in
“[sssd]” section.
p11_child_timeout (integer)
How many seconds will pam_sss wait for p11_child to finish.
Default: 10
passkey_child_timeout (integer)
How many seconds will the PAM responder wait for passkey_child to finish.
Default: 15
pam_app_services (string)
Which PAM services are permitted to contact domains of type “application”
Default: Not set
pam_p11_allowed_services (integer)
A comma-separated list of PAM service names for which it will be allowed to use
Smartcards.
It is possible to add another PAM service name to the default set by using
“+service_name” or to explicitly remove a PAM service name from the default set by
using “-service_name”. For example, in order to replace a default PAM service name for
authentication with Smartcards (e.g. “login”) with a custom PAM service name (e.g.
“my_pam_service”), you would use the following configuration:
pam_p11_allowed_services = +my_pam_service, -login
Default: the default set of PAM service names includes:
• login
• su
• su-l
• gdm-smartcard
• gdm-password
• kdm
• sudo
• sudo-i
• gnome-screensaver
p11_wait_for_card_timeout (integer)
If Smartcard authentication is required how many extra seconds in addition to
p11_child_timeout should the PAM responder wait until a Smartcard is inserted.
Default: 60
p11_uri (string)
PKCS#11 URI (see RFC-7512 for details) which can be used to restrict the selection of
devices used for Smartcard authentication. By default SSSD's p11_child will search for
a PKCS#11 slot (reader) where the 'removable' flags is set and read the certificates
from the inserted token from the first slot found. If multiple readers are connected
p11_uri can be used to tell p11_child to use a specific reader.
Example:
p11_uri = pkcs11:slot-description=My%20Smartcard%20Reader
or
p11_uri = pkcs11:library-description=OpenSC%20smartcard%20framework;slot-id=2
To find suitable URI please check the debug output of p11_child. As an alternative the
GnuTLS utility 'p11tool' with e.g. the '--list-all' will show PKCS#11 URIs as well.
Default: none
pam_initgroups_scheme
The PAM responder can force an online lookup to get the current group memberships of
the user trying to log in. This option controls when this should be done and the
following values are allowed:
always
Always do an online lookup, please note that pam_id_timeout still applies
no_session
Only do an online lookup if there is no active session of the user, i.e. if the
user is currently not logged in
never
Never force an online lookup, use the data from the cache as long as they are not
expired
Default: no_session
pam_gssapi_services
Comma separated list of PAM services that are allowed to try GSSAPI authentication
using pam_sss_gss.so module.
To disable GSSAPI authentication, set this option to “-” (dash).
Note: This option can also be set per-domain which overwrites the value in [pam]
section. It can also be set for trusted domain which overwrites the value in the
domain section.
Example:
pam_gssapi_services = sudo, sudo-i
Default: - (GSSAPI authentication is disabled)
pam_gssapi_check_upn
If True, SSSD will require that the Kerberos user principal that successfully
authenticated through GSSAPI can be associated with the user who is being
authenticated. Authentication will fail if the check fails.
If False, every user that is able to obtained required service ticket will be
authenticated.
Note: This option can also be set per-domain which overwrites the value in [pam]
section. It can also be set for trusted domain which overwrites the value in the
domain section.
Default: True
pam_gssapi_indicators_map
Comma separated list of authentication indicators required to be present in a Kerberos
ticket to access a PAM service that is allowed to try GSSAPI authentication using
pam_sss_gss.so module.
Each element of the list can be either an authentication indicator name or a pair
“service:indicator”. Indicators not prefixed with the PAM service name will be
required to access any PAM service configured to be used with pam_gssapi_services. A
resulting list of indicators per PAM service is then checked against indicators in the
Kerberos ticket during authentication by pam_sss_gss.so. Any indicator from the ticket
that matches the resulting list of indicators for the PAM service would grant access.
If none of the indicators in the list match, access will be denied. If the resulting
list of indicators for the PAM service is empty, the check will not prevent the
access.
To disable GSSAPI authentication indicator check, set this option to “-” (dash). To
disable the check for a specific PAM service, add “service:-”.
Note: This option can also be set per-domain which overwrites the value in [pam]
section. It can also be set for trusted domain which overwrites the value in the
domain section.
Following authentication indicators are supported by IPA Kerberos deployments:
• pkinit -- pre-authentication using X.509 certificates -- whether stored in files
or on smart cards.
• hardened -- SPAKE pre-authentication or any pre-authentication wrapped in a FAST
channel.
• radius -- pre-authentication with the help of a RADIUS server.
• otp -- pre-authentication using integrated two-factor authentication (2FA or
one-time password, OTP) in IPA.
• idp -- pre-authentication using external identity provider.
Example: to require access to SUDO services only for users which obtained their
Kerberos tickets with a X.509 certificate pre-authentication (PKINIT), set
pam_gssapi_indicators_map = sudo:pkinit, sudo-i:pkinit
Default: not set (use of authentication indicators is not required)
SUDO configuration options
These options can be used to configure the sudo service. The detailed instructions for
configuration of sudo(8) to work with sssd(8) are in the manual page sssd-sudo(5).
sudo_timed (bool)
Whether or not to evaluate the sudoNotBefore and sudoNotAfter attributes that
implement time-dependent sudoers entries.
Default: false
sudo_threshold (integer)
Maximum number of expired rules that can be refreshed at once. If number of expired
rules is below threshold, those rules are refreshed with “rules refresh” mechanism. If
the threshold is exceeded a “full refresh” of sudo rules is triggered instead. This
threshold number also applies to IPA sudo command and command group searches.
Default: 50
AUTOFS configuration options
These options can be used to configure the autofs service.
autofs_negative_timeout (integer)
Specifies for how many seconds should the autofs responder negative cache hits (that
is, queries for invalid map entries, like nonexistent ones) before asking the back end
again.
Default: 15
Please note that the automounter only reads the master map on startup, so if any
autofs-related changes are made to the sssd.conf, you typically also need to restart the
automounter daemon after restarting the SSSD.
SSH configuration options
These options can be used to configure the SSH service.
ssh_hash_known_hosts (bool)
Whether or not to hash host names and addresses in the managed known_hosts file.
Default: false
ssh_known_hosts_timeout (integer)
How many seconds to keep a host in the managed known_hosts file after its host keys
were requested.
Default: 180
ssh_use_certificate_keys (bool)
If set to true the sss_ssh_authorizedkeys will return ssh keys derived from the public
key of X.509 certificates stored in the user entry as well. See
sss_ssh_authorizedkeys(1) for details.
Default: true
ssh_use_certificate_matching_rules (string)
By default the ssh responder will use all available certificate matching rules to
filter the certificates so that ssh keys are only derived from the matching ones. With
this option the used rules can be restricted with a comma separated list of mapping
and matching rule names. All other rules will be ignored.
There are two special key words 'all_rules' and 'no_rules' which will enable all or no
rules, respectively. The latter means that no certificates will be filtered out and
ssh keys will be generated from all valid certificates.
If no rules are configured using 'all_rules' will enable a default rule which enables
all certificates suitable for client authentication. This is the same behavior as for
the PAM responder if certificate authentication is enabled.
A non-existing rule name is considered an error. If as a result no rule is selected
all certificates will be ignored.
Default: not set, equivalent to 'all_rules', all found rules or the default rule are
used
ca_db (string)
Path to a storage of trusted CA certificates. The option is used to validate user
certificates before deriving public ssh keys from them.
Default:
• /etc/sssd/pki/sssd_auth_ca_db.pem (path to a file with trusted CA certificates in
PEM format)
PAC responder configuration options
The PAC responder works together with the authorization data plugin for MIT Kerberos
sssd_pac_plugin.so and a sub-domain provider. The plugin sends the PAC data during a
GSSAPI authentication to the PAC responder. The sub-domain provider collects domain SID
and ID ranges of the domain the client is joined to and of remote trusted domains from the
local domain controller. If the PAC is decoded and evaluated some of the following
operations are done:
• If the remote user does not exist in the cache, it is created. The UID is determined
with the help of the SID, trusted domains will have UPGs and the GID will have the
same value as the UID. The home directory is set based on the subdomain_homedir
parameter. The shell will be empty by default, i.e. the system defaults are used, but
can be overwritten with the default_shell parameter.
• If there are SIDs of groups from domains sssd knows about, the user will be added to
those groups.
These options can be used to configure the PAC responder.
allowed_uids (string)
Specifies the comma-separated list of UID values or user names that are allowed to
access the PAC responder. User names are resolved to UIDs at startup.
Default: 0 (only the root user is allowed to access the PAC responder)
Please note that although the UID 0 is used as the default it will be overwritten with
this option. If you still want to allow the root user to access the PAC responder,
which would be the typical case, you have to add 0 to the list of allowed UIDs as
well.
pac_lifetime (integer)
Lifetime of the PAC entry in seconds. As long as the PAC is valid the PAC data can be
used to determine the group memberships of a user.
Default: 300
pac_check (string)
Apply additional checks on the PAC of the Kerberos ticket which is available in Active
Directory and FreeIPA domains, if configured. Please note that Kerberos ticket
validation must be enabled to be able to check the PAC, i.e. the krb5_validate option
must be set to 'True' which is the default for the IPA and AD provider. If
krb5_validate is set to 'False' the PAC checks will be skipped.
The following options can be used alone or in a comma-separated list:
no_check
The PAC must not be present and even if it is present no additional checks will be
done.
pac_present
The PAC must be present in the service ticket which SSSD will request with the
help of the user's TGT. If the PAC is not available the authentication will fail.
check_upn
If the PAC is present check if the user principal name (UPN) information is
consistent.
check_upn_allow_missing
This option should be used together with 'check_upn' and handles the case where a
UPN is set on the server-side but is not read by SSSD. The typical example is a
FreeIPA domain where 'ldap_user_principal' is set to a not existing attribute
name. This was typically done to work-around issues in the handling of enterprise
principals. But this is fixed since quite some time and FreeIPA can handle
enterprise principals just fine and there is no need anymore to set
'ldap_user_principal'.
Currently this option is set by default to avoid regressions in such environments.
A log message will be added to the system log and SSSD's debug log in case a UPN
is found in the PAC but not in SSSD's cache. To avoid this log message it would be
best to evaluate if the 'ldap_user_principal' option can be removed. If this is
not possible, removing 'check_upn' will skip the test and avoid the log message.
upn_dns_info_present
The PAC must contain the UPN-DNS-INFO buffer, implies 'check_upn'.
check_upn_dns_info_ex
If the PAC is present and the extension to the UPN-DNS-INFO buffer is available
check if the information in the extension is consistent.
upn_dns_info_ex_present
The PAC must contain the extension of the UPN-DNS-INFO buffer, implies
'check_upn_dns_info_ex', 'upn_dns_info_present' and 'check_upn'.
Default: no_check (AD and IPA provider 'check_upn, check_upn_allow_missing,
check_upn_dns_info_ex')
Session recording configuration options
Session recording works in conjunction with tlog-rec-session(8), a part of tlog package,
to log what users see and type when they log in on a text terminal. See also sssd-session-
recording(5).
These options can be used to configure session recording.
scope (string)
One of the following strings specifying the scope of session recording:
"none"
No users are recorded.
"some"
Users/groups specified by users and groups options are recorded.
"all"
All users are recorded.
Default: "none"
users (string)
A comma-separated list of users which should have session recording enabled. Matches
user names as returned by NSS. I.e. after the possible space replacement, case
changes, etc.
Default: Empty. Matches no users.
groups (string)
A comma-separated list of groups, members of which should have session recording
enabled. Matches group names as returned by NSS. I.e. after the possible space
replacement, case changes, etc.
NOTE: using this option (having it set to anything) has a considerable performance
cost, because each uncached request for a user requires retrieving and matching the
groups the user is member of.
Default: Empty. Matches no groups.
exclude_users (string)
A comma-separated list of users to be excluded from recording, only applicable with
'scope=all'.
Default: Empty. No users excluded.
exclude_groups (string)
A comma-separated list of groups, members of which should be excluded from recording.
Only applicable with 'scope=all'.
NOTE: using this option (having it set to anything) has a considerable performance
cost, because each uncached request for a user requires retrieving and matching the
groups the user is member of.
Default: Empty. No groups excluded.
DOMAIN SECTIONS
These configuration options can be present in a domain configuration section, that is, in
a section called “[domain/NAME]”
enabled
Explicitly enable or disable the domain. If “true”, the domain is always “enabled”. If
“false”, the domain is always “disabled”. If this option is not set, the domain is
enabled only if it is listed in the domains option in the “[sssd]” section.
domain_type (string)
Specifies whether the domain is meant to be used by POSIX-aware clients such as the
Name Service Switch or by applications that do not need POSIX data to be present or
generated. Only objects from POSIX domains are available to the operating system
interfaces and utilities.
Allowed values for this option are “posix” and “application”.
POSIX domains are reachable by all services. Application domains are only reachable
from the InfoPipe responder (see sssd-ifp(5)) and the PAM responder.
NOTE: The application domains are currently well tested with “id_provider=ldap” only.
For an easy way to configure a non-POSIX domains, please see the “Application domains”
section.
Default: posix
min_id,max_id (integer)
UID and GID limits for the domain. If a domain contains an entry that is outside these
limits, it is ignored.
For users, this affects the primary GID limit. The user will not be returned to NSS if
either the UID or the primary GID is outside the range. For non-primary group
memberships, those that are in range will be reported as expected.
These ID limits affect even saving entries to cache, not only returning them by name
or ID.
Default: 1 for min_id, 0 (no limit) for max_id
enumerate (bool)
Determines if a domain can be enumerated, that is, whether the domain can list all the
users and group it contains. Note that it is not required to enable enumeration in
order for secondary groups to be displayed. This parameter can have one of the
following values:
TRUE = Users and groups are enumerated
FALSE = No enumerations for this domain
Default: FALSE
Enumerating a domain requires SSSD to download and store ALL user and group entries
from the remote server.
Note: Enabling enumeration has a moderate performance impact on SSSD while enumeration
is running. It may take up to several minutes after SSSD startup to fully complete
enumerations. During this time, individual requests for information will go directly
to LDAP, though it may be slow, due to the heavy enumeration processing. Saving a
large number of entries to cache after the enumeration completes might also be CPU
intensive as the memberships have to be recomputed. This can lead to the “sssd_be”
process becoming unresponsive or even restarted by the internal watchdog.
While the first enumeration is running, requests for the complete user or group lists
may return no results until it completes.
Further, enabling enumeration may increase the time necessary to detect network
disconnection, as longer timeouts are required to ensure that enumeration lookups are
completed successfully. For more information, refer to the man pages for the specific
id_provider in use.
For the reasons cited above, enabling enumeration is not recommended, especially in
large environments.
subdomain_enumerate (string)
Whether any of autodetected trusted domains should be enumerated. The supported values
are:
all
All discovered trusted domains will be enumerated
none
No discovered trusted domains will be enumerated
Optionally, a list of one or more domain names can enable enumeration just for these
trusted domains.
Default: none
entry_cache_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss consider entries valid before asking the backend again
The cache expiration timestamps are stored as attributes of individual objects in the
cache. Therefore, changing the cache timeout only has effect for newly added or
expired entries. You should run the sss_cache(8) tool in order to force refresh of
entries that have already been cached.
Default: 5400
entry_cache_user_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss consider user entries valid before asking the backend
again
Default: entry_cache_timeout
entry_cache_group_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss consider group entries valid before asking the backend
again
Default: entry_cache_timeout
entry_cache_netgroup_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss consider netgroup entries valid before asking the
backend again
Default: entry_cache_timeout
entry_cache_service_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss consider service entries valid before asking the
backend again
Default: entry_cache_timeout
entry_cache_resolver_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss consider hosts and networks entries valid before
asking the backend again
Default: entry_cache_timeout
entry_cache_sudo_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should sudo consider rules valid before asking the backend again
Default: entry_cache_timeout
entry_cache_autofs_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should the autofs service consider automounter maps valid before
asking the backend again
Default: entry_cache_timeout
entry_cache_ssh_host_timeout (integer)
How many seconds to keep a host ssh key after refresh. IE how long to cache the host
key for.
Default: entry_cache_timeout
entry_cache_computer_timeout (integer)
How many seconds to keep the local computer entry before asking the backend again
Default: entry_cache_timeout
refresh_expired_interval (integer)
Specifies how many seconds SSSD has to wait before triggering a background refresh
task which will refresh all expired or nearly expired records.
The background refresh will process users, groups and netgroups in the cache. For
users who have performed the initgroups (get group membership for user, typically ran
at login) operation in the past, both the user entry and the group membership are
updated.
This option is automatically inherited for all trusted domains.
You can consider setting this value to 3/4 * entry_cache_timeout.
Cache entry will be refreshed by background task when 2/3 of cache timeout has already
passed. If there are existing cached entries, the background task will refer to their
original cache timeout values instead of current configuration value. This may lead to
a situation in which background refresh task appears to not be working. This is done
by design to improve offline mode operation and reuse of existing valid cache entries.
To make this change instant the user may want to manually invalidate existing cache.
Default: 0 (disabled)
cache_credentials (bool)
Determines if user credentials are also cached in the local LDB cache.
Take a note that while credentials are stored as a salted SHA512 hash, this still
potentially poses some security risk in case an attacker manages to get access to a
cache file (normally requires privileged access) and to break a password using brute
force attack.
Default: FALSE
cache_credentials_minimal_first_factor_length (int)
If 2-Factor-Authentication (2FA) is used and credentials should be saved this value
determines the minimal length the first authentication factor (long term password)
must have to be saved as SHA512 hash into the cache.
This should avoid that the short PINs of a PIN based 2FA scheme are saved in the cache
which would make them easy targets for brute-force attacks.
Default: 8
account_cache_expiration (integer)
Number of days entries are left in cache after last successful login before being
removed during a cleanup of the cache. 0 means keep forever. The value of this
parameter must be greater than or equal to offline_credentials_expiration.
Default: 0 (unlimited)
pwd_expiration_warning (integer)
Display a warning N days before the password expires.
If zero is set, then this filter is not applied, i.e. if the expiration warning was
received from backend server, it will automatically be displayed.
Please note that the backend server has to provide information about the expiration
time of the password. If this information is missing, sssd cannot display a warning.
Also an auth provider has to be configured for the backend.
Default: 7 (Kerberos), 0 (LDAP)
id_provider (string)
The identification provider used for the domain. Supported ID providers are:
“proxy”: Support a legacy NSS provider.
“files”: FILES provider. See sssd-files(5) for more information on how to mirror local
users and groups into SSSD.
“ldap”: LDAP provider. See sssd-ldap(5) for more information on configuring LDAP.
“ipa”: FreeIPA and Red Hat Enterprise Identity Management provider. See sssd-ipa(5)
for more information on configuring FreeIPA.
“ad”: Active Directory provider. See sssd-ad(5) for more information on configuring
Active Directory.
use_fully_qualified_names (bool)
Use the full name and domain (as formatted by the domain's full_name_format) as the
user's login name reported to NSS.
If set to TRUE, all requests to this domain must use fully qualified names. For
example, if used in LOCAL domain that contains a "test" user, getent passwd test
wouldn't find the user while getent passwd test@LOCAL would.
NOTE: This option has no effect on netgroup lookups due to their tendency to include
nested netgroups without qualified names. For netgroups, all domains will be searched
when an unqualified name is requested.
Default: FALSE (TRUE for trusted domain/sub-domains or if default_domain_suffix is
used)
ignore_group_members (bool)
Do not return group members for group lookups.
If set to TRUE, the group membership attribute is not requested from the ldap server,
and group members are not returned when processing group lookup calls, such as
getgrnam(3) or getgrgid(3). As an effect, “getent group $groupname” would return the
requested group as if it was empty.
Enabling this option can also make access provider checks for group membership
significantly faster, especially for groups containing many members.
This option can be also set per subdomain or inherited via subdomain_inherit.
Default: FALSE
auth_provider (string)
The authentication provider used for the domain. Supported auth providers are:
“ldap” for native LDAP authentication. See sssd-ldap(5) for more information on
configuring LDAP.
“krb5” for Kerberos authentication. See sssd-krb5(5) for more information on
configuring Kerberos.
“ipa”: FreeIPA and Red Hat Enterprise Identity Management provider. See sssd-ipa(5)
for more information on configuring FreeIPA.
“ad”: Active Directory provider. See sssd-ad(5) for more information on configuring
Active Directory.
“proxy” for relaying authentication to some other PAM target.
“none” disables authentication explicitly.
Default: “id_provider” is used if it is set and can handle authentication requests.
access_provider (string)
The access control provider used for the domain. There are two built-in access
providers (in addition to any included in installed backends) Internal special
providers are:
“permit” always allow access. It's the only permitted access provider for a local
domain.
“deny” always deny access.
“ldap” for native LDAP authentication. See sssd-ldap(5) for more information on
configuring LDAP.
“ipa”: FreeIPA and Red Hat Enterprise Identity Management provider. See sssd-ipa(5)
for more information on configuring FreeIPA.
“ad”: Active Directory provider. See sssd-ad(5) for more information on configuring
Active Directory.
“simple” access control based on access or deny lists. See sssd-simple(5) for more
information on configuring the simple access module.
“krb5”: .k5login based access control. See sssd-krb5(5) for more information on
configuring Kerberos.
“proxy” for relaying access control to another PAM module.
Default: “permit”
chpass_provider (string)
The provider which should handle change password operations for the domain. Supported
change password providers are:
“ldap” to change a password stored in a LDAP server. See sssd-ldap(5) for more
information on configuring LDAP.
“krb5” to change the Kerberos password. See sssd-krb5(5) for more information on
configuring Kerberos.
“ipa”: FreeIPA and Red Hat Enterprise Identity Management provider. See sssd-ipa(5)
for more information on configuring FreeIPA.
“ad”: Active Directory provider. See sssd-ad(5) for more information on configuring
Active Directory.
“proxy” for relaying password changes to some other PAM target.
“none” disallows password changes explicitly.
Default: “auth_provider” is used if it is set and can handle change password requests.
sudo_provider (string)
The SUDO provider used for the domain. Supported SUDO providers are:
“ldap” for rules stored in LDAP. See sssd-ldap(5) for more information on configuring
LDAP.
“ipa” the same as “ldap” but with IPA default settings.
“ad” the same as “ldap” but with AD default settings.
“none” disables SUDO explicitly.
Default: The value of “id_provider” is used if it is set.
The detailed instructions for configuration of sudo_provider are in the manual page
sssd-sudo(5). There are many configuration options that can be used to adjust the
behavior. Please refer to "ldap_sudo_*" in sssd-ldap(5).
NOTE: Sudo rules are periodically downloaded in the background unless the sudo
provider is explicitly disabled. Set sudo_provider = None to disable all sudo-related
activity in SSSD if you do not want to use sudo with SSSD at all.
selinux_provider (string)
The provider which should handle loading of selinux settings. Note that this provider
will be called right after access provider ends. Supported selinux providers are:
“ipa” to load selinux settings from an IPA server. See sssd-ipa(5) for more
information on configuring IPA.
“none” disallows fetching selinux settings explicitly.
Default: “id_provider” is used if it is set and can handle selinux loading requests.
subdomains_provider (string)
The provider which should handle fetching of subdomains. This value should be always
the same as id_provider. Supported subdomain providers are:
“ipa” to load a list of subdomains from an IPA server. See sssd-ipa(5) for more
information on configuring IPA.
“ad” to load a list of subdomains from an Active Directory server. See sssd-ad(5) for
more information on configuring the AD provider.
“none” disallows fetching subdomains explicitly.
Default: The value of “id_provider” is used if it is set.
session_provider (string)
The provider which configures and manages user session related tasks. The only user
session task currently provided is the integration with Fleet Commander, which works
only with IPA. Supported session providers are:
“ipa” to allow performing user session related tasks.
“none” does not perform any kind of user session related tasks.
Default: “id_provider” is used if it is set and can perform session related tasks.
NOTE: In order to have this feature working as expected SSSD must be running as "root"
and not as the unprivileged user.
autofs_provider (string)
The autofs provider used for the domain. Supported autofs providers are:
“ldap” to load maps stored in LDAP. See sssd-ldap(5) for more information on
configuring LDAP.
“ipa” to load maps stored in an IPA server. See sssd-ipa(5) for more information on
configuring IPA.
“ad” to load maps stored in an AD server. See sssd-ad(5) for more information on
configuring the AD provider.
“none” disables autofs explicitly.
Default: The value of “id_provider” is used if it is set.
hostid_provider (string)
The provider used for retrieving host identity information. Supported hostid providers
are:
“ipa” to load host identity stored in an IPA server. See sssd-ipa(5) for more
information on configuring IPA.
“none” disables hostid explicitly.
Default: The value of “id_provider” is used if it is set.
resolver_provider (string)
The provider which should handle hosts and networks lookups. Supported resolver
providers are:
“proxy” to forward lookups to another NSS library. See “proxy_resolver_lib_name”
“ldap” to fetch hosts and networks stored in LDAP. See sssd-ldap(5) for more
information on configuring LDAP.
“ad” to fetch hosts and networks stored in AD. See sssd-ad(5) for more information on
configuring the AD provider.
“none” disallows fetching hosts and networks explicitly.
Default: The value of “id_provider” is used if it is set.
re_expression (string)
Regular expression for this domain that describes how to parse the string containing
user name and domain into these components. The "domain" can match either the SSSD
configuration domain name, or, in the case of IPA trust subdomains and Active
Directory domains, the flat (NetBIOS) name of the domain.
Default: “^((?P<name>.+)@(?P<domain>[^@]*)|(?P<name>[^@]+))$” which allows two
different styles for user names:
• username
• username@domain.name
Default for the AD and IPA provider:
“^(((?P<domain>[^\\]+)\\(?P<name>.+))|((?P<name>.+)@(?P<domain>[^@]+))|((?P<name>[^@\\]+)))$”
which allows three different styles for user names:
• username
• username@domain.name
• domain\username
While the first two correspond to the general default the third one is introduced to
allow easy integration of users from Windows domains.
The default re_expression uses the “@” character as a separator between the name and
the domain. As a result of this setting the default does not accept the “@” character
in short names (as it is allowed in Windows group names). If a user wishes to use
short names with “@” they must create their own re_expression.
full_name_format (string)
A printf(3)-compatible format that describes how to compose a fully qualified name
from user name and domain name components.
The following expansions are supported:
%1$s
user name
%2$s
domain name as specified in the SSSD config file.
%3$s
domain flat name. Mostly usable for Active Directory domains, both directly
configured or discovered via IPA trusts.
Default: “%1$s@%2$s”.
lookup_family_order (string)
Provides the ability to select preferred address family to use when performing DNS
lookups.
Supported values:
ipv4_first: Try looking up IPv4 address, if that fails, try IPv6
ipv4_only: Only attempt to resolve hostnames to IPv4 addresses.
ipv6_first: Try looking up IPv6 address, if that fails, try IPv4
ipv6_only: Only attempt to resolve hostnames to IPv6 addresses.
Default: ipv4_first
dns_resolver_server_timeout (integer)
Defines the amount of time (in milliseconds) SSSD would try to talk to DNS server
before trying next DNS server.
The AD provider will use this option for the CLDAP ping timeouts as well.
Please see the section “FAILOVER” for more information about the service resolution.
Default: 1000
dns_resolver_op_timeout (integer)
Defines the amount of time (in seconds) to wait to resolve single DNS query (e.g.
resolution of a hostname or an SRV record) before trying the next hostname or DNS
discovery.
Please see the section “FAILOVER” for more information about the service resolution.
Default: 3
dns_resolver_timeout (integer)
Defines the amount of time (in seconds) to wait for a reply from the internal fail
over service before assuming that the service is unreachable. If this timeout is
reached, the domain will continue to operate in offline mode.
Please see the section “FAILOVER” for more information about the service resolution.
Default: 6
dns_resolver_use_search_list (bool)
Normally, the DNS resolver searches the domain list defined in the "search" directive
from the resolv.conf file. This can lead to delays in environments with improperly
configured DNS.
If fully qualified domain names (or _srv_) are used in the SSSD configuration, setting
this option to FALSE can prevent unnecessary DNS lookups in such environments.
Default: TRUE
dns_discovery_domain (string)
If service discovery is used in the back end, specifies the domain part of the service
discovery DNS query.
Default: Use the domain part of machine's hostname
override_gid (integer)
Override the primary GID value with the one specified.
case_sensitive (string)
Treat user and group names as case sensitive. Possible option values are:
True
Case sensitive. This value is invalid for AD provider.
False
Case insensitive.
Preserving
Same as False (case insensitive), but does not lowercase names in the result of
NSS operations. Note that name aliases (and in case of services also protocol
names) are still lowercased in the output.
If you want to set this value for trusted domain with IPA provider, you need to
set it on both the client and SSSD on the server.
This option can be also set per subdomain or inherited via subdomain_inherit.
Default: True (False for AD provider)
subdomain_inherit (string)
Specifies a list of configuration parameters that should be inherited by a subdomain.
Please note that only selected parameters can be inherited. Currently the following
options can be inherited:
ldap_search_timeout
ldap_network_timeout
ldap_opt_timeout
ldap_offline_timeout
ldap_enumeration_refresh_timeout
ldap_enumeration_refresh_offset
ldap_purge_cache_timeout
ldap_purge_cache_offset
ldap_krb5_keytab (the value of krb5_keytab will be used if ldap_krb5_keytab is not set
explicitly)
ldap_krb5_ticket_lifetime
ldap_enumeration_search_timeout
ldap_connection_expire_timeout
ldap_connection_expire_offset
ldap_connection_idle_timeout
ldap_use_tokengroups
ldap_user_principal
ignore_group_members
auto_private_groups
case_sensitive
Example:
subdomain_inherit = ldap_purge_cache_timeout
Default: none
Note: This option only works with the IPA and AD provider.
subdomain_homedir (string)
Use this homedir as default value for all subdomains within this domain in IPA AD
trust. See override_homedir for info about possible values. In addition to those, the
expansion below can only be used with subdomain_homedir.
%F
flat (NetBIOS) name of a subdomain.
The value can be overridden by override_homedir option.
Default: /home/%d/%u
realmd_tags (string)
Various tags stored by the realmd configuration service for this domain.
cached_auth_timeout (int)
Specifies time in seconds since last successful online authentication for which user
will be authenticated using cached credentials while SSSD is in the online mode. If
the credentials are incorrect, SSSD falls back to online authentication.
This option's value is inherited by all trusted domains. At the moment it is not
possible to set a different value per trusted domain.
Special value 0 implies that this feature is disabled.
Please note that if “cached_auth_timeout” is longer than “pam_id_timeout” then the
back end could be called to handle “initgroups.”
Default: 0
auto_private_groups (string)
This option takes any of three available values:
true
Create user's private group unconditionally from user's UID number. The GID number
is ignored in this case.
NOTE: Because the GID number and the user private group are inferred from the UID
number, it is not supported to have multiple entries with the same UID or GID
number with this option. In other words, enabling this option enforces uniqueness
across the ID space.
false
Always use the user's primary GID number. The GID number must refer to a group
object in the LDAP database.
hybrid
A primary group is autogenerated for user entries whose UID and GID numbers have
the same value and at the same time the GID number does not correspond to a real
group object in LDAP. If the values are the same, but the primary GID in the user
entry is also used by a group object, the primary GID of the user resolves to that
group object.
If the UID and GID of a user are different, then the GID must correspond to a
group entry, otherwise the GID is simply not resolvable.
This feature is useful for environments that wish to stop maintaining a separate
group objects for the user private groups, but also wish to retain the existing
user private groups.
For subdomains, the default value is False for subdomains that use assigned POSIX IDs
and True for subdomains that use automatic ID-mapping.
The value of auto_private_groups can either be set per subdomains in a subsection, for
example:
[domain/forest.domain/sub.domain]
auto_private_groups = false
or globally for all subdomains in the main domain section using the subdomain_inherit
option:
[domain/forest.domain]
subdomain_inherit = auto_private_groups
auto_private_groups = false
Options valid for proxy domains.
proxy_pam_target (string)
The proxy target PAM proxies to.
Default: not set by default, you have to take an existing pam configuration or create
a new one and add the service name here.
proxy_lib_name (string)
The name of the NSS library to use in proxy domains. The NSS functions searched for in
the library are in the form of _nss_$(libName)_$(function), for example
_nss_files_getpwent.
proxy_resolver_lib_name (string)
The name of the NSS library to use for hosts and networks lookups in proxy domains.
The NSS functions searched for in the library are in the form of
_nss_$(libName)_$(function), for example _nss_dns_gethostbyname2_r.
proxy_fast_alias (boolean)
When a user or group is looked up by name in the proxy provider, a second lookup by ID
is performed to "canonicalize" the name in case the requested name was an alias.
Setting this option to true would cause the SSSD to perform the ID lookup from cache
for performance reasons.
Default: false
proxy_max_children (integer)
This option specifies the number of pre-forked proxy children. It is useful for
high-load SSSD environments where sssd may run out of available child slots, which
would cause some issues due to the requests being queued.
Default: 10
Application domains
SSSD, with its D-Bus interface (see sssd-ifp(5)) is appealing to applications as a gateway
to an LDAP directory where users and groups are stored. However, contrary to the
traditional SSSD deployment where all users and groups either have POSIX attributes or
those attributes can be inferred from the Windows SIDs, in many cases the users and groups
in the application support scenario have no POSIX attributes. Instead of setting a
“[domain/NAME]” section, the administrator can set up an “[application/NAME]” section that
internally represents a domain with type “application” optionally inherits settings from a
tradition SSSD domain.
Please note that the application domain must still be explicitly enabled in the “domains”
parameter so that the lookup order between the application domain and its POSIX sibling
domain is set correctly.
Application domain parameters
inherit_from (string)
The SSSD POSIX-type domain the application domain inherits all settings from. The
application domain can moreover add its own settings to the application settings that
augment or override the “sibling” domain settings.
Default: Not set
The following example illustrates the use of an application domain. In this setup, the
POSIX domain is connected to an LDAP server and is used by the OS through the NSS
responder. In addition, the application domain also requests the telephoneNumber
attribute, stores it as the phone attribute in the cache and makes the phone attribute
reachable through the D-Bus interface.
[sssd]
domains = appdom, posixdom
[ifp]
user_attributes = +phone
[domain/posixdom]
id_provider = ldap
ldap_uri = ldap://ldap.example.com
ldap_search_base = dc=example,dc=com
[application/appdom]
inherit_from = posixdom
ldap_user_extra_attrs = phone:telephoneNumber
TRUSTED DOMAIN SECTION
Some options used in the domain section can also be used in the trusted domain section,
that is, in a section called “[domain/DOMAIN_NAME/TRUSTED_DOMAIN_NAME]”. Where DOMAIN_NAME
is the actual joined-to base domain. Please refer to examples below for explanation.
Currently supported options in the trusted domain section are:
ldap_search_base,
ldap_user_search_base,
ldap_group_search_base,
ldap_netgroup_search_base,
ldap_service_search_base,
ldap_sasl_mech,
ad_server,
ad_backup_server,
ad_site,
use_fully_qualified_names
pam_gssapi_services
pam_gssapi_check_upn
For more details about these options see their individual description in the manual page.
CERTIFICATE MAPPING SECTION
To allow authentication with Smartcards and certificates SSSD must be able to map
certificates to users. This can be done by adding the full certificate to the LDAP object
of the user or to a local override. While using the full certificate is required to use
the Smartcard authentication feature of SSH (see sss_ssh_authorizedkeys(8) for details) it
might be cumbersome or not even possible to do this for the general case where local
services use PAM for authentication.
To make the mapping more flexible mapping and matching rules were added to SSSD (see sss-
certmap(5) for details).
A mapping and matching rule can be added to the SSSD configuration in a section on its own
with a name like “[certmap/DOMAIN_NAME/RULE_NAME]”. In this section the following options
are allowed:
matchrule (string)
Only certificates from the Smartcard which matches this rule will be processed, all
others are ignored.
Default: KRB5:<EKU>clientAuth, i.e. only certificates which have the Extended Key
Usage “clientAuth”
maprule (string)
Defines how the user is found for a given certificate.
Default:
• LDAP:(userCertificate;binary={cert!bin}) for LDAP based providers like “ldap”,
“AD” or “ipa”.
• The RULE_NAME for the “files” provider which tries to find a user with the same
name.
domains (string)
Comma separated list of domain names the rule should be applied. By default a rule is
only valid in the domain configured in sssd.conf. If the provider supports subdomains
this option can be used to add the rule to subdomains as well.
Default: the configured domain in sssd.conf
priority (integer)
Unsigned integer value defining the priority of the rule. The higher the number the
lower the priority. “0” stands for the highest priority while “4294967295” is the
lowest.
Default: the lowest priority
To make the configuration simple and reduce the amount of configuration options the
“files” provider has some special properties:
• if maprule is not set the RULE_NAME name is assumed to be the name of the matching
user
• if a maprule is used both a single user name or a template like
“{subject_rfc822_name.short_name}” must be in braces like e.g. “(username)” or
“({subject_rfc822_name.short_name})”
• the “domains” option is ignored
PROMPTING CONFIGURATION SECTION
If a special file (/var/lib/sss/pubconf/pam_preauth_available) exists SSSD's PAM module
pam_sss will ask SSSD to figure out which authentication methods are available for the
user trying to log in. Based on the results pam_sss will prompt the user for appropriate
credentials.
With the growing number of authentication methods and the possibility that there are
multiple ones for a single user the heuristic used by pam_sss to select the prompting
might not be suitable for all use cases. The following options should provide a better
flexibility here.
Each supported authentication method has its own configuration subsection under
“[prompting/...]”. Currently there are:
[prompting/password]
to configure password prompting, allowed options are:
password_prompt
to change the string of the password prompt
[prompting/2fa]
to configure two-factor authentication prompting, allowed options are:
first_prompt
to change the string of the prompt for the first factor
second_prompt
to change the string of the prompt for the second factor
single_prompt
boolean value, if True there will be only a single prompt using the value of
first_prompt where it is expected that both factors are entered as a single
string. Please note that both factors have to be entered here, even if the second
factor is optional.
If the second factor is optional and it should be possible to log in either only with
the password or with both factors two-step prompting has to be used.
[prompting/passkey]
to configure passkey authentication prompting, allowed options are:
interactive
boolean value, if True prompt a message and wait before testing the presence of a
passkey device. Recommended if your device doesn’t have a tactile trigger.
interactive_prompt
to change the message of the interactive prompt.
touch
boolean value, if True prompt a message to remind the user to touch the device.
touch_prompt
to change the message of the touch prompt.
It is possible to add a subsection for specific PAM services, e.g.
“[prompting/password/sshd]” to individual change the prompting for this service.
EXAMPLES
1. The following example shows a typical SSSD config. It does not describe configuration
of the domains themselves - refer to documentation on configuring domains for more
details.
[sssd]
domains = LDAP
services = nss, pam
config_file_version = 2
[nss]
filter_groups = root
filter_users = root
[pam]
[domain/LDAP]
id_provider = ldap
ldap_uri = ldap://ldap.example.com
ldap_search_base = dc=example,dc=com
auth_provider = krb5
krb5_server = kerberos.example.com
krb5_realm = EXAMPLE.COM
cache_credentials = true
min_id = 10000
max_id = 20000
enumerate = False
2. The following example shows configuration of IPA AD trust where the AD forest consists
of two domains in a parent-child structure. Suppose IPA domain (ipa.com) has trust with AD
domain(ad.com). ad.com has child domain (child.ad.com). To enable shortnames in the child
domain the following configuration should be used.
[domain/ipa.com/child.ad.com]
use_fully_qualified_names = false
3. The following example shows the configuration of a certificate mapping rule. It is
valid for the configured domain “my.domain” and additionally for the subdomains
“your.domain” and uses the full certificate in the search filter.
[certmap/my.domain/rule_name]
matchrule = <ISSUER>^CN=My-CA,DC=MY,DC=DOMAIN$
maprule = (userCertificate;binary={cert!bin})
domains = my.domain, your.domain
priority = 10
SEE ALSO
sssd(8), sssd.conf(5), sssd-ldap(5), sssd-ldap-attributes(5), sssd-krb5(5), sssd-
simple(5), sssd-ipa(5), sssd-ad(5), sssd-files(5), sssd-sudo(5), sssd-session-
recording(5), sss_cache(8), sss_debuglevel(8), sss_obfuscate(8), sss_seed(8),
sssd_krb5_locator_plugin(8), sss_ssh_authorizedkeys(8), sss_ssh_knownhostsproxy(8), sssd-
ifp(5), pam_sss(8). sss_rpcidmapd(5) sssd-systemtap(5)
AUTHORS
The SSSD upstream - https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/