diff --git a/sssd.changes b/sssd.changes
index a664be3..fbeb324 100644
--- a/sssd.changes
+++ b/sssd.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Dec  4 10:03:59 UTC 2017 - hguo@suse.com
+
+- Correct dependency of sss_obfuscate command line program.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Dec  1 14:35:08 UTC 2017 - hguo@suse.com
+
+- In an ongoing effort to reduce dependency on python version 2,
+  the following python libraries are no longer built. Nevertheless
+  their python3 counterparts remain in place:
+  * python-ipa_hbac
+  * python-sss-murmur
+  * python-sss_nss_idmap
+  * python-sssd-config
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Oct 23 16:31:54 UTC 2017 - michael@stroeder.com
 
diff --git a/sssd.spec b/sssd.spec
index ffc9710..eb2d420 100644
--- a/sssd.spec
+++ b/sssd.spec
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ BuildRequires:  nscd
 BuildRequires:  openldap2-devel
 BuildRequires:  pam-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config >= 0.21
-BuildRequires:  python-devel
 BuildRequires:  python3-devel
 BuildRequires:  systemd-rpm-macros
 BuildRequires:  libcmocka-devel
@@ -76,7 +75,7 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libpcre) >= 7
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libsystemd)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(ndr_nbt)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(popt)
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(python)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(python3)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(talloc)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(tdb) >= 1.1.3
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(tevent)
@@ -172,7 +171,7 @@ and/or PAM modules to leverage SSSD caching.
 Summary:        Commandline tools for sssd
 License:        GPL-3.0+ and LGPL-3.0+
 Group:          System/Management
-Requires:       python-sssd-config = %version
+Requires:       python3-sssd-config = %version
 Requires:       sssd = %version
 %py_requires
 
@@ -427,10 +426,14 @@ export LDFLAGS="-pie"
     --with-semanage=no \
     --disable-ldb-version-check \
     --without-kcm \
-	--without-secrets
+	--without-secrets \
+    --without-python2-bindings
 make %{?_smp_mflags} all
 
 %install
+# sss_obfuscate is compatible with both python 2 and 3
+sed -i -e 's:/usr/bin/python:/usr/bin/python3:' src/tools/sss_obfuscate
+
 b="%buildroot"
 make install DESTDIR="$b"
 
@@ -754,39 +757,20 @@ rm -f /var/lib/sss/db/*.ldb
 %_libdir/libsss_simpleifp.so
 %_libdir/pkgconfig/sss_simpleifp.pc
 
-%files -n python-ipa_hbac
-%defattr(-,root,root)
-%dir %python_sitearch
-%python_sitearch/pyhbac.so
-
 %files -n python3-ipa_hbac
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %dir %python3_sitearch
 %python3_sitearch/pyhbac.so
 
-%files -n python-sss-murmur
-%defattr(-,root,root)
-%python_sitearch/pysss_murmur.so
-
 %files -n python3-sss-murmur
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %python3_sitearch/pysss_murmur.so
 
-%files -n python-sss_nss_idmap
-%defattr(-,root,root)
-%dir %python_sitearch
-%python_sitearch/pysss_nss_idmap.so
-
 %files -n python3-sss_nss_idmap
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %dir %python3_sitearch
 %python3_sitearch/pysss_nss_idmap.so
 
-%files -n python-sssd-config
-%defattr(-,root,root)
-%python_sitearch/pysss.so
-%python_sitelib/SSSDConfig*
-
 %files -n python3-sssd-config
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %python3_sitearch/pysss.so