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The System Security Services Daemon (sssd) is a service (sssd.service) that is used to manage and provide access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It acts as an intermediary between a system and identity/authentication sources, such as:

1. LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
2. Active Directory (AD)
3. FreeIPA (Identity, Policy, and Audit)
4. Kerberos
5. Local identity stores

SSSD is configured through /etc/sssd/sssd.conf. The configuration includes details about identity providers, domains, and authentication mechanisms.

• Start/stop SSSD service:

  sudo systemctl start sssd
  sudo systemctl stop sssd
  

• Check service status:

  sudo systemctl status sssd
  

• View logs for debugging:

  sudo journalctl -u sssd