# SSSD - System Security Services Daemon

## Introduction
SSSD provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and
authentication mechanisms such as LDAP, Kerberos or FreeIPA. It provides
an NSS and PAM interface toward the system and a pluggable backend system
to connect to multiple different account sources.

More information about SSSD can be found on its project page -
https://pagure.io/SSSD/sssd/

## Building and installation
Please see the file BUILD.txt for details

## Documentation
The most up-to-date documentation can be found at https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/Documentation

## Licensing
Please see the file called COPYING.

## Contacts
There are several ways to contact us:

* the sssd-devel mailing list: [Development of the System Security Services Daemon](https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel)
* the sssd-users mailing list: [End-user discussions about the System Security Services Daemon](https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-users)
* the #sssd and #freeipa IRC channels on freenode:
  * irc://irc.freenode.net/sssd
  * irc://irc.freenode.net/freeipa