Very Quick Guide to build sssd components ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Use the following instructions to build the libraries and the binaries. sssd depends on 4 libraries originated in the samba project: talloc, tdb, tevent, ldb They are now available in major distribution development branches. If you have these libraries installed skip to <> If you want to build them from source download the latest samba master branch and use the following instructions Compiling libraries yourself ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTE: these instructions are temporary and will most likely change agt some point but so far the process I describe here is the best one to get something up and working while developing this project. Each library and the sssd service have a --with-shared-build-dir configure option that is useful to build the libraries so that you can build all pieces before installing each library as a dependency. If you just want to make a development build you can provide a temporary directory where libraries are installed during the build process in a way that let each dependent library find them without having to install each binary into its finally system library directory (ie build as user). I use the following steps to build all pieces. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/foo/lib pushd lib/talloc; ./autogen.sh && ./configure --with-shared-build-dir=/tmp/foo && make shared-build; popd pushd lib/tdb; ./autogen.sh && ./configure --with-shared-build-dir=/tmp/foo && make shared-build; popd pushd lib/tevent; ./autogen.sh && ./configure --with-shared-build-dir=/tmp/foo && make shared-build; popd pushd source4/lib/ldb; ./autogen.sh && ./configure --with-shared-build-dir=/tmp/foo && make shared-build; popd Compiling sssd using shared-build ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ pushd server; ./autogen.sh && ./configure --with-shared-build-dir=/tmp/foo && make; popd At this point you can start testing the sssd daemon this way: cd server export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/foo/lib ./sbin/sssd -i This will start the sssd daemon in interactive mode. Compiling sssd with system installed libraries ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ pushd server; ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make; popd Compiling client libraries ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The nss and pam client doesn't need any dependency nor supports the shared-build option. pushd sss_client; ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make; popd Now you have to copy libnss_sss* into /lib (or /lib64) and add the 'sss' traget to nsswitch.conf passwd database For pam copy pam_sss.so into /lib/security (or /lib64/security) and add pam_sss.so to your pam configuration. To use the pam_test_client from sss_client create the following file: /etc/pam.d/sss_test: auth required pam_sss.so account required pam_sss.so password required pam_sss.so session required pam_sss.so Now you can call pam_test_client: ./pam_test_client [auth|chau|acct|setc|open|clos] username@domain ~~~~~ Simo.