well saslauthd has to do with the SASL layer itself not the LDAP server itself
It can work but what it does is not related to SSSD at all.
essentially it is used to translate between one sasl auth mech and an
other its primarily for backwards compatibility. for example a common
use case for saslaut
Hi
We try to migrate from slapd to 389-dirserver.
Authentication is only used by our application login, not for system logon.
We forward our ldap authentication to a central ldap server
saslauthd:
ldap_servers
ldap_bind_dn: cn=binduser,ou=emea,o=services
ldap_bind_pw: secret
ldap_search_base: