Hmmm ... this made me think that running both was not a great idea? https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/system-level_authentication_guide/usingnscd-sssd
But I am not an expert on any of this :) I guess the key is to just make sure you only enable caching for hosts in /etc/nscd.conf? Best, Chris > On Jul 27, 2022, at 8:44 AM, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote: > > > Hi Christopher, > >> Turns out we are using SSSD not NCSD on our Linux systems. It seems to be >> working fine: > > You will need to run NSCD if you want Guix software to be able to talk > to the system’s SSSD. The reason is that SSSD works by having > applications load a library whereas NSCD implements a network protocol. > Software built with Guix cannot load the system libary due to ABI > conflict, but it *can* talk to NSCD over the network. > > The system NSCD talks to the system SSSD, so there’s no problem there. > > -- > Ricardo
