Re: SSSD Maintained?

Timo Röhling <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:29:48 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Organization The Debian Project
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Hi,

* Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> [2026-07-30 19:23]:
>Eric Reischer <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Does anytime know if the maintainers of SSSD are still active? There don=
't
>> appear to have been any binary uploads for quite some time (March, I
>> believe), the entire suite was auto-pulled from testing 2 months ago with
>> no follow-up action, and it looks like there are a couple outstanding CV=
Es.
>>
>> I can say that for those using Debian in a corporate or education
>> environment, the lack of SSSD pretty much makes Debian unusable (it's how
>> we [used to] plug into Active Directory enterprise auth/account provider=
s).
>> Do we need to solicit new (or more) maintainers for this? I would step i=
n,
>> but my bandwidth is limited and I'm not up to speed on the current Debian
>> package maintenance policies and procedures.
>
>I've done drive-by uploads of sssd, and I'm happy to help co-maintain
>it, but I don't have the relevant sssd-knowledge to do any non-trivial
>packaging changes that appears to be required.
>
>Maybe you could start looking into packaging latest upstream, doing only
>minimal debian/ changes that is required to make it work?  Put it on
>Salsa and upload to experimental if you are interested in joining the
>team (I'm hoping contributions are welcome).

I use sssd for account management on Debian machines at work, so I have=20
some modest experience with it and I'm happy to help out where I can.


Cheers
Timo


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