Joining Active Directory is currently a manual operation. There is no reason why it couldn’t be done by SaltStack – that is left as an exercise for the reader! Continue reading
AD for Debian with SaltStack – Part 5 – AD Join Script
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Category Archives: Active Directory
AD for Debian with SaltStack – Part 4 – NTP
You need to keep the time consistent across your machines for a number of reasons – not the least is basic sanity. AD needs the time consistent as otherwise Kerberos won’t work. Standard practice is to use the DC as the time source. Fortunately NTP makes it pretty easy.
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AD for Debian with SaltStack – Part 3 – SSSD, PAM and sudo
This post finishes off the key parts of the AD configuration.
Installs SSSD – the System Security Services Daemon
sssd-pkg: pkg.installed: - name: sssd
AD for Debian with SaltStack – Part 2 – Samba
Continuing AD with SaltStack; onwards with Samba!
Installs Samba for SMB support for AD
samba-pkg: pkg.installed: - pkgs: - samba - samba-common
AD for Debian with SaltStack – Part 1
SaltStack provides an easy, fast way to manage systems – from one to thousands. One of its key capabilities is configuration management – “make it look like this” – and this series of posts describes how to implement the AD join described in a previous post. Continue reading
Authenticating Linux with Active Directory using SSSD
Sometimes it is handy if users are managed somewhere other than /etc/passwd – somewhere central. Sometimes this happens to be Active Directory.
This post describes an approach on Debian Jessie against AD on Windows 2016 based on this excellent RedHat Guide’s Configuration 3 – SSSD/Kerberos/LDAP. It works very well for me. If you use a Debian-based distribution (Ubuntu, Debian etc) then hopefully it will work for you too.
I originally published this data on the Debian Wiki; I intend to expand it somewhat here.
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