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Configuring SSSD
The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) is an important tool for system authentication and authorization. In this hands-on lab, we will configure SSSD in order to develop a basic proficiency with SSSD configuration and operation. We will also explore the local SSSD user configuration store.

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Install SSSD and the necessary tools.
Run
yum install -y sssd sssd-tools
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Challenge
Configure SSSD to use the local database and to start UIDs and 2000.
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Run
sudo cp /usr/share/doc/sssd-common-<current version>/sssd-example.conf /etc/sssd/sssd.conf && sudo chmod 0600 /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
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Add the following configurations to
/etc/sssd/sssd.conf
: domains = LOCAL [domain/LOCAL] id_provider = local auth_provider = local min_id = 2000
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Challenge
Create the `jsmith` user, the `sis` group, and configure `jsmith` to have `sis` as a supplemental group in the local SSSD database.
Run the following commands:
sss_useradd jsmith sss_groupadd sis sss_usermod -a sis jsmith
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Challenge
Verify the user was created but is not located in `/etc/passwd`.
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grep jsmith /etc/passwd
and verify no lines return. - Run
id jsmith
to verify the user exists.
- Run
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