sssd-files 5 File Formats and Conventions sssd-files SSSD files provider This manual page describes the files provider for sssd 8 . For a detailed syntax reference, refer to the FILE FORMAT section of the sssd.conf 5 manual page. The files provider mirrors the content of the passwd 5 and group 5 files. The purpose of the files provider is to make the users and groups traditionally only accessible with NSS interfaces also available through the SSSD interfaces such as sssd-ifp 5 . The files provider has no specific options of its own, however, generic SSSD domain options can be set where applicable. Refer to the section DOMAIN SECTIONS of the sssd.conf 5 manual page for details on the configuration of an SSSD domain. The following example assumes that SSSD is correctly configured and files is one of the domains in the [sssd] section. [domain/files] id_provider = files