[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA integrating samba4 + AD

Christovam Paynes Silva christovamps at gmail.com
Mon Sep 16 19:05:09 UTC 2013


2013/9/12 Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com>

>  On 09/11/2013 11:27 PM, Christovam Paynes Silva wrote:
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> 2013/9/11 Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com>
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>>  On 09/11/2013 04:02 PM, Christovam Paynes Silva wrote:
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>>  It is a pity!
>> Thank you!
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>>  I did not get a feeling that we understand the whole picture correctly
>> to say that we provided the full answer..
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>> What I get from the description:
>> 1) Presence of Windows Clients = 100
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>  Correct!
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>>  2) Presence of AD to rule them
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> Correct!
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>   3) Presence of users (I deduce in AD too, but unclear) = 1000
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>  Correct! Users are wirelessly. Use windows and linux without domain.
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>>  Intent: use open source technologies instead of proprietary solution.
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>   That's right!
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>> What is not clear:
>> a) Are the users that come through the portal the same users that use
>> Windows Clients or not? Is there an overlap?
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>  Users are via wireless. Authenticate users on a "captive portal" with
> Squid. Customers are windows, linux and without domain.
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>>  b) Is there any kind of Linux servers/machines in the picture?
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>  This question was not clear to me.
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> FreeIPA is a domain controller for Linux/UNIX systems. It main value it to
> manage Linux environment inside your enterprise. It can manage users and
> groups too as any directory can. It can also authenticate users but its
> value is in creating a integrated Linux environment in terms of identity
> management. It seems that the setup you have does not actually have such
> Linux environment, i.e. Linux machines to join to IPA domain and manage.
> The question was: "Do you have Linux systems to manage?".
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I have 5 servers. But that's just me working on them.
I believe we do not need the IPA.
I appreciate the attention.
Thank you.




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>> If you do not have Linux systems and all users can be stored in one place
>> it might be that you do not need FreeIPA. It might be that you can solve
>> the problem by using Samba4 instead of AD, connecting your clients to it,
>> putting your external portal users into a special OU in Samba4, configuring
>> FreeRADIUS to use this OU for authentication. Configure your portal to use
>> RADIUS.
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>  Sorry, I may not have understood the concept of FreeIPA.
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>  I would like to continue using the AD, because of Group Policy Objects
> (GPO).
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> You need to check whether Samba 4 supports GPO and to what extent.
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> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/FAQ#Is_it_possible_to_set_user_specific_password_policies_in_Samba4_.28e._g._on_a_OU-base.29.3F
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>    It has the ability to authenticate email services, applications, among
> others directly in Samba4?
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> Yes as with any LDAP server but if you are planning to use AD than you do
> not need Samba 4 either.
> You then point your mail service and applications to AD directly.
> Most of modern applications have some sort of LDAP integration for
> identity lookup and authentication. That means you would be able to point
> them to prety much any directory: AD, Samba4, IPA, 389 ...
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>> HTH
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>> Thanks
>> Dmitri
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>> 2013/9/11 Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com>
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>>> On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 16:37 -0300, Christovam Paynes Silva wrote:
>>> > Hello Simo, thanks for the feedback.
>>> > I would use the Samba4 with AD and authenticate my clients windows in
>>> > FreeIPA.
>>> > Is this possible?
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>>>  It is not possible at this point to combine Samba4 AD and freeIPA.
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>>> Simo.
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>>> > 2013/9/11 Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com>
>>> >         On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 14:06 -0300, Christovam Paynes Silva
>>> >         wrote:
>>> >         > Hello!
>>> >         >
>>> >         >
>>> >         > First I apologize if this topic is redundant.
>>> >         >
>>> >         >
>>> >         > I'm looking on the implementation of FreeIPA . Looking for
>>> >         the
>>> >         > forums , have some comments that authentication does not
>>> >         work with
>>> >         > Samba4 . Elsewhere say that that possibility exists . Today
>>> >         we have
>>> >         > nearly 200 computers in the domain with the "Active
>>> >         Directory" and one
>>> >         > wireless "captive portal" with 1000 + proxy users .
>>> >         >
>>> >         > I would like to see if the following scenario is possible :
>>> >         > 1 - Integrating Samba4 with "Active Directory" , to use
>>> >         their GPO and
>>> >         > authenticate network users through the FreeIPA .
>>> >         > 2 - Authenticate proxy servers in FreeIPA .
>>> >         > 3 - And if it is possible some integration with FreeRADIUS
>>> >         >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >         Hi Christovam, it is a bit unclear what you mean by
>>> >         integrating here.
>>> >
>>> >         Is your intent to use Samba4 as an AD domain controller for
>>> >         your Windows
>>> >         client s and IPA for your servers ?
>>> >
>>> >         If that's the case unfortunately this is not possible at the
>>> >         moment as
>>> >         samba4 does not yet support Forest level trusts.
>>> >         A Microsoft AD server can be used this way instead.
>>> >
>>> >         Simo.
>>> >
>>> >         --
>>> >         Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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>>> --
>>> Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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>> Dmitri Pal
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