Configure SSSD to work on IPv6-only Hosts

SSSD is used for the client side of IPA and other centralized Identity Management Services. Unfortunately it does not behave as it should. The default is to look up first IPv4 addresses and if that fails IPv6 should be used. Well, if IPv4 fails, the whole request fails and you got weird error messages when joining an IPA domain. As the pool for IPv4 addresses is depleted, IPv6 is getting more and more important. Thus, IPv6-only hosts are on the ….Read More

PAM and IPA authentication for RHN Satellite

If you have a larger installation on your site, you may wish to have a single source of credentials not only for common system services, but for your RHN Satellite too. This will show you how to configure your RHN Satellite Server to use PAM with SSSD. SSSD, the System Security Services Daemon is a common framework to provide authentication services. Needless to say that IPA is supported as well. Assumptions: You have a RHN Satellite running on RHEL6 You ….Read More