[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA ActiveDire​ctory Integratio​n: Managing AD Users in IPA

[Gregor Bregenzer]

Hi!

There are two ways that you can use to integrate FreeIPA with AD: a.)
trust b.) synchronization  Here are the pros/cons for both of them:
http://www.freeipa.org/docs/master/html-desktop/index.html#trust-sync

If you want to manage POSIX attributes for each user can do that with
either identity management for Unix at AD using the trust, or with the
synchronzation at FreeIPA. With synchronization you see the users to
in FreeIPA, but still have to two users to manage - in FreeIPA and AD.
With the AD trust the sssd daemon running on FreeIPA is proxying all
request from the client sssd directly to AD, so you see no users in
FreeIPA, but you have to extend the AD schema using Identity
Management for unix. Also the password policy from the group policy in
AD is used when you use the AD trust, but on clients with sssd you can
change the password using kpasswd from Kerberos. If you want to use a
trust with AD and want to receive the correct GID set in AD then you
have to use sssd >1.9.x, otherwise you get a different GID (see
https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2014-September/msg00192.html)

All other stuff such as HBAC etc. can be centrally managed on FreeIPA,
no matter if you use a trust or synchronzation.

Gregor

2014-09-13 22:03 GMT+02:00 Traiano Welcome <traiano at gmail.com>:
> Hi List
>
> Currently I have a stable trust relationship going between IPA and Windows
> AD. I create users and manage passwords in AD, but want to manage the rest
> in IPA, "the rest" being default shell, default home directory settings,
> RBAC, HBAC, Selinux  etc ..
>
> What I'm expecting it to be able to log into the FreeIPA web interface, and
> see a synched list of users created in AD appear in the interface, after
> which I can modify the settings on a per user basis.
>
> If that level of granularity is not possible, I would then expect to be able
> to at least apply an IPA-imposed set of account defaults on and AD user
> group:
>
> - default shell
> - HBAC rules
> - Sudo rules
> - SELinux rules
> - RBAC
>
> Is this possible with FreeIPA? I can't find anything coherent in the
> documentation that describes an effective way of managing the POSIX
> attributes of AD users in FreeIPA.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Traiano
>
>
>
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