The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) is

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originally developed for the

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(OS) that provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote

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s and

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mechanisms. The beginnings of SSSD lie in the

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project

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(Identity, Policy and Audit). The purpose of SSSD is to simplify system administration of

authenticated Authentication (from ''authentikos'', "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης ''authentes'', "author") is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user. In contrast with identification, the act of indicating a ...

and authorised

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access involving multiple distinct hosts. It is intended to provide single sign-on capabilities to networks based on

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OSs that are similar in effect to the capabilities provided by

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Active Directory Domain Services to

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networks.

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* * Unix network-related software Linux software projects {{compu-stub