Hi,
> It has very limited functionality by design. If you do not want to use SSSD, you can keep using sssd profile and just disable the service. It will keep working. The minimal profile is there for users that also want to remove sssd packages to safe resources, but in that case you probably don't care about fingerprint and smartcards either.
The problem is that IMHO having sssd enabled by default is really the wrong thing to do for like 95% of our users and defaults should be the settings which are best for most / almost all users.
This is really just a symptom of a much bigger problem though, which is that we simply have way too much services / daemon's starting up by default. The output of "ps aux" after a default Fedora workstation install is just way way too long. Once upon a time Linux users used to make fun of Windows with all its background processes in the mean time a default Fedora WS install has gotten worse then Windows wrt background processes. Any of these are totally unnecessary for most of our users.
I am not sure about this. What services are you seeing which are extraneous? I do see ps aux is going on miles and miles, but of the 218 processes I see from startup time on my workstation, I see 165 of them are kernel processes versus user space ones. Of the remaining 53, most of them seem hardware oriented (irqbalance, bluetooth, modemmanager, smartd, udisksd, upowerd, etc). Looking at the rest we have about 20 processes which seem outside of 'I don't want my laptop to work with modern hardware' and that would be abrt, atd/crond/cupsd, packagekitd, colord, and the sssd processes. So while ps auxww has a lot more going on in it, I actually see a lot fewer extraneous processes than I remember from my Fedora 18 days.