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SSSD: System Security Services Daemon

SSSD: System Security Services Daemon

Posted Sep 29, 2011 20:28 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: SSSD: System Security Services Daemon by sgallagh
Parent article: SSSD: System Security Services Daemon

Hm. Interesting. If it's not required to operate, why is it running on all my Fedora boxes? I guess it was installed by default, or pulled in by something else: I certainly didn't ask for it.


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SSSD: System Security Services Daemon

Posted Sep 30, 2011 11:08 UTC (Fri) by sgallagh (guest, #80524) [Link]

The Fedora installation disks install the SSSD package by default so that it's possible to configure network identities during installation and firstboot.

Just because the package is present on the system doesn't mean it's running. Check 'service sssd status'. The design of the SSSD package in Fedora is such that in its default configuration it will fail to start (since it requires configuration specific to your network environment to do anything useful)

SSSD: System Security Services Daemon

Posted Sep 30, 2011 11:55 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

OK, I've proved I can't read ps output as well. I think I've done enough of making myself look like a fool in front of thousands of people for now :)

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