Re: SSSD Maintained?

Timo Aaltonen <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 10:09:51 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Marc Haber kirjoitti 30.7.2026 klo 23.07:
> 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
> 

Hi,

I'm happy to step out of the way, it's been a long term plan anyway.

2.13.0 did not build when I tried in May, and looks like 2.13.1 is still 
the same

/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkeyutils.so.1: error adding symbols: DSO 
missing from command line

and I haven't had time to debug why. Pushed packaging to git, anyone is 
free to fix this and send a MR.