Re: SSSD Maintained?

On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 07:29:48PM +0200, Timo Röhling wrote:
>* 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 CVEs.
>>>
>>>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 providers).
>>>Do we need to solicit new (or more) maintainers for this? I would step in,
>>>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 some modest experience with it and I'm happy to help out where I 
>can.

As sudo has recently dropped its LDAP support and is referring to sssd 
as replacement, and I am the sudo maintainer, I would be willing to put 
in some work as well. I don't have a test installation though (but would 
be willing to build a small setup).

I would like to suggest to the sssd maintainers (Cc'ed from changelog) 
to change the maintainer address to [email protected] so that 
interested parties can subscribe easily.

Greetings
Marc