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Project Summary

SSSD is a system daemon. Its primary function is to provide access to identity and authentication remote resource through a common framework that can provide caching and offline support to the system. It provides PAM and NSS modules, as well as D-BUS based interfaces. It provides also a better database to store local users as well as extended user data.

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authentication authorization daemon dbus freeipa ipa nss nsswitch pam security

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Project Security

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Languages

C
82%
Python
12%
9 Other
6%

30 Day Summary

Oct 11 2025 — Nov 10 2025

12 Month Summary

Nov 10 2024 — Nov 10 2025
  • 413 Commits
    Down -127 (23%) from previous 12 months
  • 37 Contributors
    Down -12 (24%) from previous 12 months
 

Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for SSSD/sssd )

Repository URL: https://github.com/SSSD/sssd

Version: 9c139765e09ebe8bf84da464bd045f4fac509ebb

2025-11-10
Last Analyzed
380,092
Lines of Code Analyze
0.11
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

157
Total defects
42
Outstanding
115
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID CWE-Name Number of Defects
190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound 5
676 Use of Potentially Dangerous Function 1