On 11/01/2011 01:38 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
That's true. You can probably set up netgroups and use pam_access.so to
accomplish this. I don't know anything about setting up netgroups on
Active Directory, personally.

      
AD is (more-less) RFC2307 friendly so yes, it is possible to setup a traditional netgroups in AD - I did not verify its functionality with sssd though.
So if it was up to me, I would not rape sssd to provide some functionality if the same thing can be accomplished by a more standard Unix-ish way.

Ondrej