[Freeipa-users] authentication against compat

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:30:59PM -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> >I don't know it.
> >After a quick look I wasn't able to set it up correctly, 'id USER'
> >didn't connected to it's socket like with nscd/nlscd, however
> >nsswitch.conf was configured.
> >Maybe with the upcoming 14.04 or do you have a working howto for 12.04?
> 
> Please check SSSD web site for guidelines and if you have any
> questions do not hesitate  to ask on the sssd-users list.
> SSSD is the best you can get nowadays for the connection of the
> client systems to the central identity stores.
> If you plan to use it with IPA you ho not need to configure sssd manually.
> ipa-client-install will do the trick. Just install ipa-client
> package and run the command.

If realmd is available for your distribution, then I would highly
recommend using it to set up SSSD.