That was very fast Christian, thanks! I have just tested on a freshly installed Ubuntu and I can confirm the new ppa package fixed the issue:
[ansible | CLIENTS] ssh username@x.x.x.143 username@x.x.x.143's password: Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-101-generic x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ Last login: Fri Nov 11 10:19:42 2016 from x.x.x.250 username@nv-hostname06:~$ dpkg -l |grep sssd |awk '{print $2,$3}' sssd 1.11.8-0ubuntu0.3~ppa1 sssd-ad 1.11.8-0ubuntu0.3~ppa1 sssd-ad-common 1.11.8-0ubuntu0.3~ppa1 sssd-common 1.11.8-0ubuntu0.3~ppa1 sssd-ipa 1.11.8-0ubuntu0.3~ppa1 sssd-krb5 1.11.8-0ubuntu0.3~ppa1 sssd-krb5-common 1.11.8-0ubuntu0.3~ppa1 sssd-ldap 1.11.8-0ubuntu0.3~ppa1 sssd-proxy 1.11.8-0ubuntu0.3~ppa1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1640805 Title: SSSD authentication fails after upgrade to 1.11.8-0ubuntu0.2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/sssd/+bug/1640805/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs