sssd-ipa - Man Page

This manual page describes the configuration of the IPA provider for sssd(8). For a detailed syntax reference, refer to the “FILE FORMAT” section of the sssd.conf(5) manual page.

The IPA provider is a back end used to connect to an IPA server. (Refer to the freeipa.org web site for information about IPA servers.) This provider requires that the machine be joined to the IPA domain; configuration is almost entirely self-discovered and obtained directly from the server.

The IPA provider enables SSSD to use the sssd-ldap(5) identity provider and the sssd-krb5(5) authentication provider with optimizations for IPA environments. The IPA provider accepts the same options used by the sssd-ldap and sssd-krb5 providers with some exceptions. However, it is neither necessary nor recommended to set these options.

The IPA provider primarily copies the traditional ldap and krb5 provider default options with some exceptions, the differences are listed in the “Modified Default Options” section.

As an access provider, the IPA provider has a minimal configuration (see “ipa_access_order”) as it mainly uses HBAC (host-based access control) rules. Please refer to freeipa.org for more information about HBAC.

If “auth_provider=ipa” or “access_provider=ipa” is configured in sssd.conf then the id_provider must also be set to “ipa”.

The IPA provider will use the PAC responder if the Kerberos tickets of users from trusted realms contain a PAC. To make configuration easier the PAC responder is started automatically if the IPA ID provider is configured.

Refer to the section “DOMAIN SECTIONS” of the sssd.conf(5) manual page for details on the configuration of an SSSD domain.

ipa_domain (string)

Specifies the name of the IPA domain. This is optional. If not provided, the configuration domain name is used.

ipa_server, ipa_backup_server (string)

The comma-separated list of IP addresses or hostnames of the IPA servers to which SSSD should connect in the order of preference. For more information on failover and server redundancy, see the “Failover” section. This is optional if autodiscovery is enabled. For more information on service discovery, refer to the “Service Discovery” section.

ipa_hostname (string)

Optional. May be set on machines where the hostname(5) does not reflect the fully qualified name used in the IPA domain to identify this host. The hostname must be fully qualified.

dyndns_update (boolean)

Optional. This option tells SSSD to automatically update the DNS server built into FreeIPA with the IP address of this client. The update is secured using GSS-TSIG. The IP address of the IPA LDAP connection is used for the updates, if it is not otherwise specified by using the “dyndns_iface” option.

NOTE: On older systems (such as RHEL 5), for this behavior to work reliably, the default Kerberos realm must be set properly in /etc/krb5.conf

NOTE: While it is still possible to use the old ipa_dyndns_update option, users should migrate to using dyndns_update in their config file.

Default: false

dyndns_ttl (integer)

The TTL to apply to the client DNS record when updating it. If dyndns_update is false this has no effect. This will override the TTL serverside if set by an administrator.

NOTE: While it is still possible to use the old ipa_dyndns_ttl option, users should migrate to using dyndns_ttl in their config file.

Default: 1200 (seconds)

dyndns_iface (string)

Optional. Applicable only when dyndns_update is true. Choose the interface or a list of interfaces whose IP addresses should be used for dynamic DNS updates. Special value “*” implies that IPs from all interfaces should be used.

NOTE: While it is still possible to use the old ipa_dyndns_iface option, users should migrate to using dyndns_iface in their config file.

Default: Use the IP addresses of the interface which is used for IPA LDAP connection

Example: dyndns_iface = em1, vnet1, vnet2

dyndns_auth (string)

Whether the nsupdate utility should use GSS-TSIG authentication for secure updates with the DNS server, insecure updates can be sent by setting this option to 'none'.

Default: GSS-TSIG

dyndns_auth_ptr (string)

Whether the nsupdate utility should use GSS-TSIG authentication for secure PTR updates with the DNS server, insecure updates can be sent by setting this option to 'none'.

Default: Same as dyndns_auth

ipa_enable_dns_sites (boolean)

Enables DNS sites - location based service discovery.

If true and service discovery (see Service Discovery paragraph at the bottom of the man page) is enabled, then the SSSD will first attempt location based discovery using a query that contains "_location.hostname.example.com" and then fall back to traditional SRV discovery. If the location based discovery succeeds, the IPA servers located with the location based discovery are treated as primary servers and the IPA servers located using the traditional SRV discovery are used as back up servers

Default: false

dyndns_refresh_interval (integer)

How often should the back end perform periodic DNS update in addition to the automatic update performed when the back end goes online. This option is optional and applicable only when dyndns_update is true.

Default: 0 (disabled)

dyndns_update_ptr (bool)

Whether the PTR record should also be explicitly updated when updating the client's DNS records. Applicable only when dyndns_update is true.

This option should be False in most IPA deployments as the IPA server generates the PTR records automatically when forward records are changed.

Note that dyndns_update_per_family parameter does not apply for PTR record updates. Those updates are always sent separately.

Default: False (disabled)

dyndns_force_tcp (bool)

Whether the nsupdate utility should default to using TCP for communicating with the DNS server.

Default: False (let nsupdate choose the protocol)

dyndns_server (string)

The DNS server to use when performing a DNS update. In most setups, it's recommended to leave this option unset.

Setting this option makes sense for environments where the DNS server is different from the identity server.

Please note that this option will be only used in fallback attempt when previous attempt using autodetected settings failed.

Default: None (let nsupdate choose the server)

dyndns_update_per_family (boolean)

DNS update is by default performed in two steps - IPv4 update and then IPv6 update. In some cases it might be desirable to perform IPv4 and IPv6 update in single step.

Default: true

ipa_access_order (string)

Comma separated list of access control options. Allowed values are:

expire: use IPA's account expiration policy.

pwd_expire_policy_reject, pwd_expire_policy_warn, pwd_expire_policy_renew: These options are useful if users are interested in being warned that password is about to expire and authentication is based on using a different method than passwords - for example SSH keys.

The difference between these options is the action taken if user password is expired:

• pwd_expire_policy_reject - user is denied to log in,
• pwd_expire_policy_warn - user is still able to log in,
• pwd_expire_policy_renew - user is prompted to change their password immediately.

Please note that 'access_provider = ipa' must be set for this feature to work.

ipa_deskprofile_search_base (string)

Optional. Use the given string as search base for Desktop Profile related objects.

Default: Use base DN

ipa_hbac_search_base (string)

Optional. Use the given string as search base for HBAC related objects.

Default: Use base DN

ipa_host_search_base (string)

Deprecated. Use ldap_host_search_base instead.

ipa_selinux_search_base (string)

Optional. Use the given string as search base for SELinux user maps.

See “ldap_search_base” for information about configuring multiple search bases.

Default: the value of ldap_search_base

ipa_subdomains_search_base (string)

Optional. Use the given string as search base for trusted domains.

See “ldap_search_base” for information about configuring multiple search bases.

Default: the value of cn=trusts,%basedn

ipa_master_domain_search_base (string)

Optional. Use the given string as search base for master domain object.

See “ldap_search_base” for information about configuring multiple search bases.

Default: the value of cn=ad,cn=etc,%basedn

ipa_views_search_base (string)

Optional. Use the given string as search base for views containers.

See “ldap_search_base” for information about configuring multiple search bases.

Default: the value of cn=views,cn=accounts,%basedn

krb5_realm (string)

The name of the Kerberos realm. This is optional and defaults to the value of “ipa_domain”.

The name of the Kerberos realm has a special meaning in IPA - it is converted into the base DN to use for performing LDAP operations.

krb5_confd_path (string)

Absolute path of a directory where SSSD should place Kerberos configuration snippets.

To disable the creation of the configuration snippets set the parameter to 'none'.

Default: not set (krb5.include.d subdirectory of SSSD's pubconf directory)

ipa_deskprofile_refresh (integer)

The amount of time between lookups of the Desktop Profile rules against the IPA server. This will reduce the latency and load on the IPA server if there are many desktop profiles requests made in a short period.

Default: 5 (seconds)

ipa_deskprofile_request_interval (integer)

The amount of time between lookups of the Desktop Profile rules against the IPA server in case the last request did not return any rule.

Default: 60 (minutes)

ipa_hbac_refresh (integer)

The amount of time between lookups of the HBAC rules against the IPA server. This will reduce the latency and load on the IPA server if there are many access-control requests made in a short period.

Default: 5 (seconds)

ipa_hbac_selinux (integer)

The amount of time between lookups of the SELinux maps against the IPA server. This will reduce the latency and load on the IPA server if there are many user login requests made in a short period.

Default: 5 (seconds)

ipa_server_mode (boolean)

This option will be set by the IPA installer (ipa-server-install) automatically and denotes if SSSD is running on an IPA server or not.

On an IPA server SSSD will lookup users and groups from trusted domains directly while on a client it will ask an IPA server.

NOTE: There are currently some assumptions that must be met when SSSD is running on an IPA server.

• The “ipa_server” option must be configured to point to the IPA server itself. This is already the default set by the IPA installer, so no manual change is required.
• The “full_name_format” option must not be tweaked to only print short names for users from trusted domains.

Default: false

ipa_automount_location (string)

The automounter location this IPA client will be using

Default: The location named "default"

Please note that the automounter only reads the master map on startup, so if any autofs-related changes are made to the sssd.conf, you typically also need to restart the automounter daemon after restarting the SSSD.

Certain option defaults do not match their respective backend provider defaults, these option names and IPA provider-specific defaults are listed below:

The IPA subdomains provider behaves slightly differently if it is configured explicitly or implicitly.

If the option 'subdomains_provider = ipa' is found in the domain section of sssd.conf, the IPA subdomains provider is configured explicitly, and all subdomain requests are sent to the IPA server if necessary.

If the option 'subdomains_provider' is not set in the domain section of sssd.conf but there is the option 'id_provider = ipa', the IPA subdomains provider is configured implicitly. In this case, if a subdomain request fails and indicates that the server does not support subdomains, i.e. is not configured for trusts, the IPA subdomains provider is disabled. After an hour or after the IPA provider goes online, the subdomains provider is enabled again.

Some configuration options can also be set for a trusted domain. A trusted domain configuration can be set using the trusted domain subsection as shown in the example below. Alternatively, the “subdomain_inherit” option can be used in the parent domain.

[domain/ipa.domain.com/ad.domain.com]
ad_server = dc.ad.domain.com

For more details, see the sssd.conf(5) manual page.

Different configuration options are tunable for a trusted domain depending on whether you are configuring SSSD on an IPA server or an IPA client.

The failover feature allows back ends to automatically switch to a different server if the current server fails.

The service discovery feature allows back ends to automatically find the appropriate servers to connect to using a special DNS query. This feature is not supported for backup servers.

The following example assumes that SSSD is correctly configured and example.com is one of the domains in the [sssd] section. This examples shows only the ipa provider-specific options.

[domain/example.com]
id_provider = ipa
ipa_server = ipaserver.example.com
ipa_hostname = myhost.example.com

sssd(8), sssd.conf(5), sssd-ldap(5), sssd-ldap-attributes(5), sssd-krb5(5), sssd-simple(5), sssd-ipa(5), sssd-ad(5), sssd-sudo(5), sssd-session-recording(5), sss_cache(8), sss_debuglevel(8), sss_obfuscate(8), sss_seed(8), sssd_krb5_locator_plugin(8), sss_ssh_authorizedkeys(1), sss_ssh_knownhosts(1), sssd-ifp(5), pam_sss(8). sss_rpcidmapd(5) sssd-systemtap(5)

The SSSD upstream - https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/

idmap_sss(8), ipa-client-install(1), pam_sss(8), pam_sss_gss(8), sss_cache(8), sssctl(8), sssd(8), sssd-ad(5), sssd.conf(5), sss_debuglevel(8), sssd-ifp(5), sssd-krb5(5), sssd_krb5_localauth_plugin(8), sssd_krb5_locator_plugin(8), sssd-ldap(5), sssd-ldap-attributes(5), sssd-session-recording(5), sssd-simple(5), sssd-sudo(5), sssd-systemtap(5), sss_obfuscate(8), sss_override(8), sss_seed(8), sss_ssh_authorizedkeys(1), sss_ssh_knownhosts(1).