sssd.conf 5 File Formats and Conventions sssd.conf the configuration file for SSSD 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 line comment starts with a hash sign (#) or a semicolon (;) All sections can have an optional description parameter. Its function is only as a label for the 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 called monitor. activeServices Comma separated list of services that are started when sssd itself starts. Since Data Provider (dp) is a required service, it will be started even if omitted. Default: dp Supported services: dp, nss, pam reconnection_retries Number of times services should attempt to reconnect in the event of a Data Provider crash or restart before they give up Default: 3 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. domains The list of domains in the order you want them to be queried This section allows to configure how a name, or a fully qualified name looks like. These settings are used by both the PAM and NSS responders. re-expression (string) Regular expression that describes how to parse the string containing user name and domain into these components. Default: (?<name>[^@]+)@?(?<domain>[^@]*$) which translates to "the name is everything up to the @ sign, the domain everything after that" full-name-format (string) A printf 3 -compatible format that describes how to translate a (name, domain) tuple into a fully qualified name. Default: %1$s@%2$s. This section contains settings that alter default values used when adding a user with SSSD userspace tools (sss_useradd). defaultShell (string) The default shell for users created with SSSD userspace tools. Default: /bin/bash baseDirectory (string) The tools append the login name to baseDirectory and use that as the home directory. Default: /home Settings that can be used to configure different services are described in this section. They should reside in the [services/NAME] section, for example, for NSS service, the section would be [services/nss] These options can be used to configure any service. debug-level (integer) Sets the debug level for the service. The value can be in range from 0 (only critical messages) to 10 (very verbose). Default: 0 reconnection_retries (integer) Number of times services should attempt to reconnect in the event of a Data Provider crash or restart before they give up Default: 3 command (string) By default, the executable representing this service is called sssd_${service_name}. This directive allows to change the executable name for the service. In the vast majority of configurations, the default values should suffice. Default: sssd_${service_name} Monitor is the central controller of the SSSD. It is responsible for running all the other services that provide specific pieces of functionality. sbusAddress (string) The services in sssd communicate over an internal wrapper on top of D-Bus called S-Bus. This directive can be used to specify the address to connect to. The vast majority of configurations will not need to change this setting. sbusTimeout (string) Specifies the timeout for messages sent over the SBUS. Default: -1 (implies a reasonable timeout as defined by the D-BUS library) These options can be used to configure the Name Service Switch (NSS) service. EnumCacheTimeout (integer) How long should nss_sss cache enumerations (requests for info about all users) Default: 120 EntryCacheTimeout (integer) How long should nss_sss cache positive cache hits (that is, queries for valid database entries) before asking the backend again Default: 600 EntryNegativeTimeout (integer) How long should nss_sss cache negative cache hits (that is, queries for invalid database entries, like nonexistent ones) before asking the backend again Default: 15 filterUsers, filterGroups (string) Exclude certain users from being fetched from the sss NSS database. This is particulary useful for system accounts like root. These configuration options can be present in a domain configuration section, that is, in a section called [domains/NAME] minId,maxId (integer) UID limits for the domain. If a domain contains entry that is outside these limits, it is ignored Default: 0 (no limit) timeout (integer) Timeout in seconds for this particular domain. Raising this timeout might prove useful for slower backends like distant LDAP servers. Default: 0 (no timeout) magicPrivateGroups (bool) By using the Magic Private Groups option, you are imposing two limitations to the ID space and name space: 1. Users and groups in the domain share a common name space. There can never be an explicit group with the same name as a user 2. Users and groups share a common ID space, there can never be an explicit group with a same ID as a user Using Magic Private groups bring the benefit of better Windows Interoperability (in Windows, the ID and name spaces are unique) and also avoids creating a group for every user, thus cluttering the group space. Also, for NSS calls, every user is actually returned as user's private group without having to explicitly create the group, thus having the same effect as User Private Groups Default: FALSE enumerate (integer) Determines if a domain can be enumerated. This parameter can have one of the following values: 0 = No enumeration 1 = Enumerate users 2 = Enumerate groups 3 = Enumerate both Default: 0 cache-credentials (bool) Determines if user credentials are also cached in the local LDB cache Default: FALSE legacy (bool) A legacy domain is a strictly POSIX domain in terms of attributes it supports. Groups in legacy domains can't be nested. Default: FALSE store-legacy-passwords (bool) Whether to also store passwords in a legacy domain Default: FALSE provider (string) The Data Provider backend to use for this domain. Supported backends: files: traditional UNIX files (/etc/passwd) proxy: Support a legacy NSS provider local: SSSD internal local provider ldap: LDAP provider useFullyQualifiedNames (bool) 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. Default: FALSE Options valid for proxy domains. auth-module (string) The authentication module used. Two authentication modules are provided - ldap for native LDAP authentication and proxy, used for relaying authentication to some other PAM target. pam-target (string) The proxy target PAM proxies to. Default: sssd_pam_proxy_default libName (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. 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. [services] description = Local Service Configuration activeServices = nss, pam reconnection_retries = 3 [services/nss] description = NSS Responder Configuration filterGroups = root filterUsers = root debug-level = 4 [services/dp] description = Data Provider Configuration debug-level = 4 [services/pam] description = PAM Responder Configuration [services/monitor] description = Service Monitor Configuration [domains] description = Domains served by SSSD domains = LOCAL,FILES [domains/LOCAL] description = LOCAL Users domain enumerate = 3 minId = 5000 maxId = 30000 legacy = FALSE magicPrivateGroups = TRUE provider = local [domains/FILES] description = Users stored in UNIX files enumerate = 3 minId = 500 maxId = 4999 provider = files sssd.conf5 , sss_groupadd8 , sss_groupdel8 , sss_groupmod8 , sss_useradd8 , sss_userdel8 , sss_usermod8 .