Hi, I finally found some time to package sssd and am about to create the submit request to factory. sssd (hosted at http://fedorahosted.org/sssd/) stands for "System Security Services Daemon" and it's primary function is to provide access to identity and authentication (it comes with a PAM and NSS module) remote resources through a common framework that can provide caching and offline support to the system. I gave a short introduction to it already in May last year on this list (back then sssd was still a bit premature): http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-05/msg00019.html Many things I wrote in that mail are still true AFAIK. One difference is that today sssd comes with it's own providers for ldap and kerberos and doesn't necessarily need to use nss/pam_ldap for that any more. We have currently two feature requests in fate regarding sssd: https://features.opensuse.org/308900 and https://features.opensuse.org/308902 I won't be working on YaST support (Fate#308902), but if anyone feels like doing so, sssd comes with a simple Python API to manage it's own configuration which could be leveraged for that. My current plan is to use "network:ldap" as the devel project for sssd and I have split it into four packages: python-sssd-config: the configuration API sssd: The main daemon, NSS and PAM modules plus the provider plugins for ldap, kerberos and proxying sssd-ipa-provider: The provider plugin for FreeIPA, splitted into a separate package as we currently don't have much use for it. (BTW, is anybody interested in making FreeIPA (freeipa.org) work on openSUSE and OpenLDAP? Please get in contact with me) sssd-tools: Some command line tools to manage sssd local users (sssd offers to maintain local users and groups in it's on databases instead of using /etc/passwd,/etc/groups Comments, feedback and patches are very welcome. regards, Ralf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org