= Features/SSSDImproveADIntegration = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SSSDImproveADIntegration Feature owner(s): Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@xxxxxxxxxx>, Sumit Bose <sbose@xxxxxxxxxx> The next major release of SSSD will include support for more advanced AD features for domain members. This includes site support and trusted domains. Additionally it will include a plugin for the cifs-utils package which would allow a CIFS client to use SSSD for lookups which were currently only possible with winbind. == Detailed description == So far SSSD development of AD provider concentrated on doing the user and group lookups for the joined domain efficiently with high performance. With the next major release of SSSD support for some features which are specific to AD domain will be added. This includes: * Site support: AD domains which include different physical locations can be split into sites. Each site represents a single physical location. With specially crafted DNS service record lookups an AD client can find the nearest domain controller, i.e. the domain controller in its site. This helps to keep network traffic local and allows clients to talk to the server with the lowest latency. * Trusted domains: currently the SSSD AD provider can only look up user and groups of the joined domain. With the support of Global Catalogs all users and groups of the forest the AD domain belongs to are available. Additionally it is planned to follow cross forest trust to look up users and groups in trusted forests. * CIFS client integration: in version 5.9 of the cifs-utils a plugin interface for ID mapping was added. This allows cifs-utils to use other services than winbind for those lookups. While those lookups are not needed for basic operation, i.e. accessing files from a Linux client on a Windows/Samba file server, they are needed e.g. when accessing and modifying access control lists (ACLs). _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
