sssctl command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

sssctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sssctl: command not found

Solutions to sssctl: command not found

How To Fix sssctl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sssctl is provided by sssd-tools package.

sssd-tools is:

Provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It provides an NSS and PAM interface toward the system and a pluggable backend system to connect to multiple different account sources. It is also the basis to provide client auditing and policy services for projects like FreeIPA.

This package provides tools to manage users, groups and nested groups when using the local id provider.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install sssd-tools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install sssd-tools.

sudo apt -y install sssd-tools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install sssd-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix sssctl command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.