Installation

This project consists of two components:

• authd: The authentication daemon responsible for managing access to the authentication mechanism.

• an identity broker: The services that handle the interface with an identity provider. There can be several identity brokers installed and enabled on the system.

authd is delivered as a Debian package.

System requirements

• Distribution: Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS

• Architectures: amd64, arm64

Note

While this project is in active development, a version for Ubuntu 24.04 is available from the authd testing PPA.

You can add this PPA to your system’s software sources with the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-enterprise-desktop/authd
sudo apt update

Install the following Debian packages (note that gnome-shell and yaru-theme* are only required for desktop integration, server installations may ignore them):

sudo apt install authd gnome-shell yaru-theme-gnome-shell

Install brokers

The brokers are provided as Snap packages and available from the Snap Store.

MS Entra ID broker

To install the MS Entra ID broker, run the following command:

sudo snap install authd-msentraid

At this stage, you have installed the main service and an identity broker to authenticate against Microsoft Entra ID.

Google IAM broker

To install the Google IAM broker, run the following command:

sudo snap install authd-google

At this stage, you have installed the main service and an identity broker to authenticate against Google IAM.