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
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