diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-auth/sssd/files/sssd.service b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-auth/sssd/files/sssd.service
index 1821089a60..a6afb4682c 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-auth/sssd/files/sssd.service
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-auth/sssd/files/sssd.service
@@ -1,15 +1,10 @@
 [Unit]
 Description=System Security Services Daemon
-# SSSD will not be started until syslog is
-After=syslog.target
+After=nscd.service
 
 [Service]
-ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sssd -D -f
-# These two should be used with traditional UNIX forking daemons
-# consult systemd.service(5) for more details
-Type=forking
+ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sssd -i
 PIDFile=/run/sssd.pid
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
-
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-auth/sssd/files/tmpfiles.d/sssd.conf b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-auth/sssd/files/tmpfiles.d/sssd.conf
index 51acd3968f..b93cb388c3 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-auth/sssd/files/tmpfiles.d/sssd.conf
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-auth/sssd/files/tmpfiles.d/sssd.conf
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
-d /etc/sssd	0700	root	root	-	-
-C /etc/sssd/sssd.conf	0600	root	root	-	/usr/share/sssd/sssd-example.conf
+d /etc/sssd			0700	root	root	-	-
+C /etc/sssd/sssd.conf		0600	root	root	-	/usr/share/sssd/sssd-example.conf
+d /var/lib/sss			-	root	root	-	-
+d /var/lib/sss/db		0700	root	root	-	-
+d /var/lib/sss/pipes		-	root	root	-	-
+d /var/lib/sss/pipes/private	0700	root	root	-	-
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-auth/sssd/sssd-1.13.1-r4.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-auth/sssd/sssd-1.13.1-r6.ebuild
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-auth/sssd/sssd-1.13.1-r4.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-auth/sssd/sssd-1.13.1-r6.ebuild