SSSD Logins From LDAP, Cached For When It Is Down
sssd from BaseOS: accounts and groups from an LDAP directory over verified LDAPS, logins through PAM, credentials cached. Its config check exits 0 with a finding, so the role reads the count. Against a 389-ds built for the test, the right password works, a wrong one fails, and with the directory stopped the cache still logs in. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-10-02 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
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Documentation
sssd
sssd from BaseOS: accounts and groups from an LDAP directory over LDAPS with the certificate verified, logins through PAM, credentials cached for when the directory is unreachable, and an optional LDAP filter for who may log in. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10 against a 389 Directory Server.
No download, and no version to pin. EL 10 packages sssd, so the
role installs it by name and takes what the distribution ships: a security
update arrives through dnf, not through a new release of this role. What the
role owns is the configuration and the proof that the service works.
The distribution's unit, which re-owns the file. sssd's own unit chowns
/etc/sssd to root:sssd and adds group read before every start (measured), so
the role writes sssd.conf as root:sssd 0640 - written any other way, the
next start would change it and the role would never be idempotent. authselect's
sssd profile points PAM and nsswitch at sssd.
A check that exits 0 with a finding. sssctl config-check reported
"Issues identified by validators: 1 ... 'ldap_urii' is not allowed" and exited
0 (measured), so a check that trusts the exit code would pass a typo. The role
reads the count and refuses anything but zero.
What a directory needs to give. The bind account must be granted read on
the posix attributes: a 389-ds created without sample entries answered
"Success" with zero entries until an ACI allowed it (measured). The name in
sssd_ldap_uri must be the one on the directory's certificate - by another
name sssd went Offline with "hostname does not match name in peer
certificate" (measured), as it should with ldap_tls_reqcert = demand.
Proven by logins. Against a 389-ds built for the test, sssd resolves an account and its group, keeps a non-posix entry and an unknown name invisible, answers PAM with Success for the right password and Authentication failure for a wrong one, passes the access check - and, with the directory STOPPED, still resolves the account and accepts its password from the cache.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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