On 22/01/16 15:32, Klaus Hartnegg wrote:
> Am 22.01.2016 um 16:07 schrieb Rowland Penny:
>> On 22/01/16 14:29, Klaus Hartnegg wrote:
>>> Am 22.01.2016 um 14:23 schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp:
>>>> Does anybody know what sssd is good for?
>>>
>>> This is often used together with Samba to make userids of pure Active
>>> Directory users known to the Linux of the domain controller.
>>>
>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Sssd
>>>
>>> The samba developers recommend to use winbindd for this function. But
>>> there are cases when this does not exactly do what the admins want.
>>> Then they often switch to sssd.
>>
>> Care to expand on what sssd does that winbind doesn't ?
>
> I do not use it myself, only read about it on the samba mailinglist.
> You can probably tell much more precisely what sssd is, than I can.
> Just wanted to make sure that before devuan leaves it away, they
> should consider that some samba users want it.
> I should have added that because winbind improves with time, sssd will
> probably be less used in the future.
>

Yes, you are quite correct that some samba users want it, whether they
need it, is another question. I cannot actually think of anything that
sssd does that winbind doesn't.

Rowland