SSSD SUDO - System Security Services Daemon SU Do -------------------------------------------------- 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. SSSD SUDO project is a plugin based system that gives the power of implemnting sudo rules into an ldap server and authenticates users based on these sudo rules with the help of cached credentials of SSSD. It is a helpful tool to create new access policies and to implment it to wide range of users with common LDAP repository that stores these rules. Sice it is a plugin based system you can plu-in/unplug it to the sudo utility. This project is under the Google summer of code 2011. More information about SSSD can be found on its project page - Building and installation ------------------------- Please see the file BUILD.txt for details Documentation ------------- The most up-to-date documentation can be found at Licensing --------- Please see the file called COPYING. Contacts -------- There are several ways to contact us: * the sssd-devel mailing list: * the #freeipa IRC channel on freenode: irc://irc.freenode.net/freeipa * Author: Arun Scaria ( r00tkit ) email: arunscaria91@gmail.com * Mentor: Stephen Gallagher email: sgallagh@redhat.com * Mentor: JrAquino email: jr.aquino@citrix.com