The SSSD libwbclient implementation has been deprecated

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 / 8.5

Issue

• What is the support status of the SSSD libwbclient implementation (i.e. the sssd-libwbclient) package?

Resolution

The SSSD libwbclient implementation (sssd-libwbclient) package has been deprecated with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 and will be completely removed from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5.

Root Cause

The SSSD implementation of libwbclient (i.e. the sssd-libwbclient package) was originally included in RHEL 8 to allow the Samba smbd service to retrieve user and group information from Active Directory without the need to run the winbind service.

As Samba now requires that the winbind service handle communications with Active Directory, the related code has been removed from smdb for security reasons. Since this additional required functionality is not part of SSSD and the SSSD implementation of libwbclient cannot be used with recent versions of Samba, the SSSD implementation of libwbclient is being deprecated.

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