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AD for Debian with SaltStack – Part 5 – AD Join Script

Posted on 17th May 2018 by martinwbrown
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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 →

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AD for Debian with SaltStack – Part 4 – NTP

Posted on 15th May 2018 by martinwbrown
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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

Posted on 12th May 2018 by martinwbrown
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This post finishes off the key parts of the AD configuration.

Installs SSSD – the System Security Services Daemon

sssd-pkg:
  pkg.installed:
    - name: sssd

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AD for Debian with SaltStack – Part 2 – Samba

Posted on 12th May 2018 by martinwbrown
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Continuing AD with SaltStack; onwards with Samba!

Installs Samba for SMB support for AD

samba-pkg:
  pkg.installed:
    - pkgs:
      - samba
      - samba-common

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AD for Debian with SaltStack – Part 1

Posted on 10th May 2018 by martinwbrown
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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 →

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