[Pkg-sssd-devel] Bug#925026: Please enable D-Bus activation for sssd-ifp (and possibly others)

[Martin Pitt]

Package: sssd-dbus
Severity: wishlist
Version: 1.16.3-3.1

sssd-dbus does not work out of the box:

  # apt install sssd-dbus
  # busctl introspect org.freedesktop.sssd.infopipe /org/freedesktop/sssd/infopipe/Users
  Failed to introspect object /org/freedesktop/sssd/infopipe/Users of service org.freedesktop.sssd.infopipe: Unit sssd-ifp.service not found.

This is because the Debian package disables the automatic D-Bus activation [1].

This means that "ifp" has to be explicitly added to /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
"services =", and that the infopipe process will then *always* be running,
instead of on demand only.

Is there a particular reason for this? This just seems to unnecessarily make
things harder and less efficient?

FTR, Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS ship these files.

Thanks,

Martin

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/sssd-team/sssd/blob/master/debian/rules#L76