Comment 3 for bug 1777860

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

It looks like upstream added a PIDFile entry to the systemd service definition in 1.16.1, which is included in Bionic and Cosmic. So it's likely that this bug is fixed there.

Therefore this bug affects only Xenial and possibly Artful.

> In our environment, with hundreds of computers running Ubuntu, the 'solution' brought forth in that discussion, to investigate and handle the issue manually, is not a serious option.

Did you know that you can work around the problem by creating an override file at /etc/systemd/system/sssd.service?

Nevertheless we should fix this in Xenial for the benefit of all other users who hit this, but now that you know the workaround should stop the bug affecting you easily enough.