Hello, thanks for the ping.

Kali is based on Debian testing (not Debian unstable), and sssd was removed from testing on 2024-04-25, and didn't re-enter yet: https://tracker.debian.org/sssd. As a result it was automatically removed from Kali, as it's not a package that is in the scope of our QA: https://pkg.kali.org/pkg/sssd

In this case we can usually import the package from Debian unstable, however in this particular case we can't, as the package is part of the ongoing Python 3.12 transition. It will re-enter Debian testing (and therefore Kali) once the Python 3.12 transition is complete, and Python 3,12 becomes the default.

As a workaround, I think you can get the packages from snapshot.debian.org: https://snapshot.debian.org/package/sssd/. I'd try version 2.9.4-1.1, and if it fails to install (due to dependency issues) I'd try newer versions. You will need to download a bunch of .deb, so don't try to do that manually, instead add snapshot.debian.org to your sources.list.

Here's how I'd do it, using the date 2024-03-04 (at this date it was the version 2.9.4-1.1 in the Debian unstable archive):

# Become root
$ sudo su

# Create file to add debian-snapshot to apt sources
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-snapshot-20240304.list
deb [check-valid-until=no] https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240304/ sid main

# Create preferences file to install only sssd packages from the debian-snapshot repo
$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/sssd-snapshot
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50

Package: src:sssd
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 500

Then run apt update.

If all goes well, after that you can run apt policy to check that the package is available:

┌──(root㉿kali)-[~]
└─# apt policy sssd
sssd:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.9.4-1.1+b1
  Version table:
     2.9.4-1.1+b1 500
         50 https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240304 sid/main amd64 Packages

And you should be able to install it.

When a newer version of the package will re-enter Kali rolling, apt will upgrade to this newer version, and at this point you can remove the two files /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-snapshot-20240304.list and /etc/apt/preferences.d/sssd-snapshot.

Please tell me if that worked so I can close this ticket. Thanks!

I was able to get it working, but because of dependencies on samba I had to use the 2024-06-04 snapshot sssd 2.9.5-3.
I also had to install both sssd-ad-common and sssd-ad.
Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm closing the ticket. Feel free to re-open (or open a new one) if you bump into more issues.