Reference

These guides provide technical information about authd.

Providers

Multiple identity providers and brokers are supported by authd:

• Identity providers that authd supports

Troubleshooting

The documentation includes several pages that are helpful when troubleshooting authd:

• Troubleshooting

Groups

Managing groups of users that need the same access and permissions to resources is supported by the Microsoft Entra ID broker for authd:

• Group management

Deployment

Deploying authd at scale can be achieved with Landscape or cloud-init. The documentation includes snippets to get you started.

• Deploying and configuring authd with Landscape
• Deploying and configuring authd with cloud-init

Command line tool (authctl)

The authctl command line tool is used to manage authd users and groups.

Available commands:

• Command line tool (authctl)
  • authctl user lock
  • authctl user unlock
  • authctl user set-uid
  • authctl group set-gid