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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE reference PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.4//EN"
-"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd">
-<reference>
-<title>SSSD Manual pages</title>
-<refentry>
- <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="include/upstream.xml" />
-
- <refmeta>
- <refentrytitle>sssd.conf</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
- <refmiscinfo class="manual">File Formats and Conventions</refmiscinfo>
- </refmeta>
-
- <refnamediv id='name'>
- <refname>sssd.conf</refname>
- <refpurpose>the configuration file for SSSD</refpurpose>
- </refnamediv>
-
- <refsect1 id='file-format'>
- <title>FILE FORMAT</title>
-
- <para>
- 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:
- <programlisting>
- <replaceable>[section]</replaceable>
- <replaceable>key</replaceable> = <replaceable>value</replaceable>
- <replaceable>key2</replaceable> = <replaceable>value2,value3</replaceable>
- </programlisting>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The data types used are string (no quotes needed), integer
- and bool (with values of <quote>TRUE/FALSE</quote>).
- </para>
-
- <para>
- A line comment starts with a hash sign (<quote>#</quote>) or a
- semicolon (<quote>;</quote>)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- All sections can have an optional
- <replaceable>description</replaceable> parameter. Its function
- is only as a label for the section.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <filename>sssd.conf</filename> must be a regular file, owned by
- root and only root may read from or write to the file.
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1 id='special-sections'>
- <title>SPECIAL SECTIONS</title>
-
- <refsect2 id='services'>
- <title>The [sssd] section</title>
- <para>
- 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
- <quote>monitor</quote>. The <quote>[sssd]</quote> section is used
- to configure the monitor as well as some other important options
- like the identity domains.
- <variablelist>
- <title>Section parameters</title>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>config_file_version (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates what is the syntax of the config
- file. SSSD 0.6.0 and later use version 2.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>services</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Comma separated list of services that are
- started when sssd itself starts.
- </para>
- <para>
- Supported services: nss, pam
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>reconnection_retries (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Number of times services should attempt to
- reconnect in the event of a Data Provider
- crash or restart before they give up
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 3
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>domains</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 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 described the list of domains
- in the order you want them to be queried.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>re_expression (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Regular expression that describes how to parse the string
- containing user name and domain into these components.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: <quote>(?P&lt;name&gt;[^@]+)@?(?P&lt;domain&gt;[^@]*$)</quote>
- which translates to "the name is everything up to the
- <quote>@</quote> sign, the domain everything after that"
- </para>
- <para>
- PLEASE NOTE: the support for non-unique named
- subpatterns is not available on all plattforms
- (e.g. RHEL5 and SLES10). Only plattforms with
- libpcre version 7 or higher can support non-unique
- named subpatterns.
- </para>
- <para>
- PLEASE NOTE ALSO: older version of libpcre only
- support the Python syntax (?P&lt;name&gt;) to label
- subpatterns.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>full_name_format (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- A <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>printf</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>-compatible format that describes how to
- translate a (name, domain) tuple into a fully qualified
- name.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: <quote>%1$s@%2$s</quote>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </refsect2>
-
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1 id='services-sections'>
- <title>SERVICES SECTIONS</title>
- <para>
- Settings that can be used to configure different services
- are described in this section. They should reside in the
- [<replaceable>$NAME</replaceable>] section, for example,
- for NSS service, the section would be <quote>[nss]</quote>
- </para>
-
- <refsect2 id='general'>
- <title>General service configuration options</title>
- <para>
- These options can be used to configure any service.
- </para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>debug_level (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Sets the debug level for the service. The
- value can be in range from 0 (only critical
- messages) to 10 (very verbose).
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 0
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>debug_timestamps (bool)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Add a timestamp to the debug messages
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: true
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>reconnection_retries (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Number of times services should attempt to
- reconnect in the event of a Data Provider
- crash or restart before they give up
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 3
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>command (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- By default, the executable
- representing this service is called
- <command>sssd_${service_name}</command>.
- This directive allows to change the executable
- name for the service. In the vast majority of
- configurations, the default values should suffice.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: <command>sssd_${service_name}</command>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect2>
-
- <refsect2 id='NSS'>
- <title>NSS configuration options</title>
- <para>
- These options can be used to configure the
- Name Service Switch (NSS) service.
- </para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>enum_cache_timeout (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- How many seconds should nss_sss cache enumerations
- (requests for info about all users)
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 120
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>entry_cache_nowait_percentage (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 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.
- </para>
- <para>
- 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.
- </para>
- <para>
- 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)
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 0
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>entry_negative_timeout (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Specifies for how long nss_sss should cache
- negative cache hits (that is, queries for
- invalid database entries, like nonexistent ones)
- before asking the back end again.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 15
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>filter_users, filter_groups (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Exclude certain users from being fetched from the sss
- NSS database. This is particulary useful for system
- accounts.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: root
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>filter_users_in_groups (bool)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If you want filtered user still be group members
- set this option to false.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: true
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect2>
- <refsect2 id='PAM'>
- <title>PAM configuration options</title>
- <para>
- These options can be used to configure the
- Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) service.
- </para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>offline_credentials_expiration (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If the authentication provider is offline, how
- long should we allow cached logins (in days since
- the last successful online login).
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 0 (No limit)
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>offline_failed_login_attempts (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If the authentication provider is offline, how
- many failed login attempts are allowed.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 0 (No limit)
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>offline_failed_login_delay (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The time in minutes which has to pass after
- offline_failed_login_attempts has been reached
- before a new login attempt is possible.
- </para>
- <para>
- If set to 0 the user cannot authenticate offline if
- offline_failed_login_attempts has been reached. Only
- a successful online authentication can enable
- enable offline authentication again.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 5
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect2>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1 id='domain-sections'>
- <title>DOMAIN SECTIONS</title>
- <para>
- These configuration options can be present in a domain
- configuration section, that is, in a section called
- <quote>[domain/<replaceable>NAME</replaceable>]</quote>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>min_id,max_id (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- UID limits for the domain. If a domain contains
- entry that is outside these limits, it is ignored
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 1000 for min_id, 0 (no limit) for max_id
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>timeout (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Timeout in seconds between heartbeats for this domain.
- This is used to ensure that the backend process is
- alive and capable of answering requests.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 10
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>enumerate (bool)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Determines if a domain can be enumerated. This
- parameter can have one of the following values:
- </para>
- <para>
- TRUE = Users and groups are enumerated
- </para>
- <para>
- FALSE = No enumerations for this domain
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: TRUE
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>entry_cache_timeout (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- How many seconds should nss_sss consider
- entries valid before asking the backend again
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 600
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>cache_credentials (bool)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Determines if user credentials are also cached
- in the local LDB cache
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: FALSE
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>id_provider (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The Data Provider identity backend to use for this
- domain.
- </para>
- <para>
- Supported backends:
- </para>
- <para>
- proxy: Support a legacy NSS provider
- </para>
- <para>
- local: SSSD internal local provider
- </para>
- <para>
- ldap: LDAP provider
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>use_fully_qualified_names (bool)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 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, <command>getent passwd test</command>
- wouldn't find the user while <command>getent
- passwd test@LOCAL</command> would.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: FALSE
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>auth_provider (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The authentication provider used for the domain.
- Supported auth providers are:
- </para>
- <para>
- <quote>ldap</quote> for native LDAP authentication. See
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sssd-ldap</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry> for more information on configuring LDAP.
- </para>
- <para>
- <quote>krb5</quote> for Kerberos authentication. See
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sssd-krb5</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry> for more information on configuring Kerberos.
- </para>
- <para>
- <quote>proxy</quote> for relaying authentication to some other PAM target.
- </para>
- <para>
- <quote>none</quote> disables authentication explicitly.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: <quote>id_provider</quote> is used if it
- is set and can handle authentication requests.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>access_provider (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 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:
- </para>
- <para>
- <quote>permit</quote> always allow access.
- </para>
- <para>
- <quote>deny</quote> always deny access.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: <quote>permit</quote>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>chpass_provider (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The provider which should handle change password
- operations for the domain.
- Supported change password providers are:
- </para>
- <para>
- <quote>ldap</quote> to change a password stored
- in a LDAP server. See
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sssd-ldap</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry> for more information on configuring LDAP.
- </para>
- <para>
- <quote>krb5</quote> to change the Kerberos
- password. See
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sssd-krb5</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry> for more information on configuring Kerberos.
- </para>
- <para>
- <quote>proxy</quote> for relaying password changes
- to some other PAM target.
- </para>
- <para>
- <quote>none</quote> disallows password changes explicitly.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: <quote>auth_provider</quote> is used if it
- is set and can handle change password requests.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Options valid for proxy domains.
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>proxy_pam_target (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The proxy target PAM proxies to.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: not set by default, you have to take an
- existing pam configuration or create a new one and
- add the service name here.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>proxy_lib_name (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 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.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
-
- <refsect2 id='local_domain'>
- <title>The local domain section</title>
- <para>
- This section contains settings for domain that stores users and
- groups in SSSD native database, that is, a domain that uses
- <replaceable>id_provider=local</replaceable>.
- </para>
- <variablelist>
- <title>Section parameters</title>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>default_shell (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The default shell for users created
- with SSSD userspace tools.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: <filename>/bin/bash</filename>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>base_directory (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The tools append the login name to
- <replaceable>base_directory</replaceable> and
- use that as the home directory.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: <filename>/home</filename>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>create_homedir (bool)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicate if a home directory should be created by default for new users.
- Can be overriden on command line.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: TRUE
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>remove_homedir (bool)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicate if a home directory should be removed by default for deleted users.
- Can be overriden on command line.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: TRUE
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>homedir_umask (integer)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Used by
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sss_useradd</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry> to specify the default permissions on a newly created
- home directory.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: 077
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>skel_dir (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The skeleton directory, which contains files
- and directories to be copied in the user's
- home directory, when the home directory is
- created by
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sss_useradd</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: <filename>/etc/skel</filename>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>mail_dir (string)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The mail spool directory. This is needed to
- manipulate the mailbox when its corresponding
- user account is modified or deleted.
- If not specified, a default
- value is used.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default: <filename>/var/mail</filename>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect2>
-
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1 id='example'>
- <title>EXAMPLE</title>
- <para>
- 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.
-<programlisting>
-[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_kdcip = kerberos.example.com
-krb5_realm = EXAMPLE.COM
-cache_credentials = true
-
-min_id = 10000
-max_id = 20000
-enumerate = true
-</programlisting>
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1 id='see_also'>
- <title>SEE ALSO</title>
- <para>
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sssd-ldap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sssd-krb5</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sss_groupadd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sss_groupdel</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sss_groupmod</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sss_useradd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sss_userdel</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>sss_usermod</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>pam_sss</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>.
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-</refentry>
-</reference>