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 3 – SSSD, PAM and sudo
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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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