Kenneth Holter wrote:
Thank you for your reply.
Yes you understood me correctly - I ment it doesn't seem like Windows
Sync is intended for Linux machine login (via SSH to be precise) to
"just work" with no additional work. I'm sorry that I wasn't too clear
on this.
Is it so that one usually has a AD/DS setup like this:
* users/passwords are synced from AD to DS
* the new users are exported to ldif file, added things such as
posix attributes, and reimported into DS
* users can now log into linux servers (via SSH) that are properly
configured as LDAP clients
? Just trying to get an understanding of how one usualy set up AD and
DS to work together.
I think that's how it usually goes. Perhaps some other folks that are
doing this will chime in.
freeIPA will soon have support for automatic creation of AD user
accounts in IPA, including all of the posix and kerberos attributes
needed for OS login. See freeipa.org
On 11/7/08, *Rich Megginson* <rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Kenneth Holter wrote:
I'm not very into fedora/redhat direcoty server (DS), but
thought I'd just drop a quick question: It doesn't seems like
Windows Sync is intended for syncing AD users to DS so that
users defined on AD can be allowed to log into Linux machines.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Do you mean because the posix
attributes are not synced, you cannot create a user in AD that is
synced to Fedora DS and Linux machine login "just works" with no
additional work?
It is possible to get this working, however, through a series
of manual steps. So what is the intended purpose for Windows
Sync, if I might ask, as it seems a lot simpler just to manage
everything directly from DS without syncing with AD?
I think most people use it to sync passwords, so that you can have
the same password on AD as Unix/Linux, and when you change the
password on one side, that change is synced to the other side.
Regards,
Kenneth Holter
On 11/6/08, *Rich Megginson* <rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
Erling Ringen Elvsrud wrote:
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Rich Megginson
<rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx>
<mailto:rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
[...]
That should work. But note that posix attributes
will not
sync to AD. And
even if you did manage to find a posix schema that
worked
with AD, and added
the posix schema on the AD side, those attributes would
not be synced to
Fedora DS.
Thanks for your answer.
I start to wonder if Windows sync is worth the trouble.
At my
site we
will probably not implement password sync as the
AD-side is very
restrictive about installing anything.
I hear this all the time - AD admins are very touchy about
installing anything, especially some piece of random open
source
software that's going to intercept clear text passwords and
send
them who-knows-where
So what I get is basically a
skeleton that I have to populate with the posixUser
attributes.
Another issue is groups in AD. I suppose those groups
will become
regular unix-groups on the directory server side,
Yes. But note - not posix groups (posixGroup) but plain groups
(groupOfUniqueNames)
which might not
be enough for all policing needs (may need netgroups in
addition).
Sure.
We will probably have maximum a few hundred users in the
directory, do
you think Windows-sync is worth the bother?
I suggest you take a look at Penrose
http://docs.safehaus.org/display/PENROSE/Home
Erling
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