For the record, the fact that the back end went offline if the kpasswd server could not be resolved is a bug we fixed during the 1.9 development: https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1452 _______________________________________________ sssd-users mailing list sssd-users@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-users