Configuring RHEL servers to authenticate with Windows Server 2008Active Directory

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

> Great, thanks, I got it working.
>
> Currently, our linux users all are member of a posix group of the same
> name (i.e user "kenneth" is member of its own group "kenneth", which is
> the default in linux as far as I know). Do you know how I can create such
> groups on AD, instead of adding users to shared groups such as
> "unixusers"?

I *loathe* that - it's a Redhat-ism, creating one group/user. Your linux
users should all be in appropriate groups; otherwise, permission for
shared directories, etc, will be a nightmare.

How 'bout creating groups per team, which is the way it should be?

         mark
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM, s u p e r n a u t
> <supernaut at gmx.com>wrote:
>
>> I've used this in the past to good effect with RHEL5.3 and W2K3.  I'm
>> sure
>> you'll have to make adjustments with W2K8, but it may be a good starting
>> point.
>>
>>
>> http://www.interopsystems.com/downloads/Native_LDAP_native_Kerberos_and_AD_services.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Holter"
>> <kenneho.ndu at gmail.com
>> >
>> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:58 AM
>> Subject: Re: Configuring RHEL servers to authenticate with Windows
>> Server
>> 2008Active Directory
>>
>>
>>  Thanks for your reply.
>>>
>>> I would like the account and group information to be maintained in AD.
>>> Possibly later on we'll implement kerberos too.
>>>
>>>
>>> - Kenneth
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Marti, Robert <RJM002 at shsu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>  If you just care about authentication and not accounts, I'd set up
>>>> kerberos
>>>> auth - much easier.  I have no experience setting up LDAP auth, sorry.
>>>>
>>>> Rob Marti
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
>>>> On
>>>> Behalf Of Kenneth Holter [kenneho.ndu at gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:17
>>>> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>>>> Subject: Configuring RHEL servers to authenticate with Windows Server
>>>> 2008
>>>>     Active Directory
>>>>
>>>> Hello all.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to set my RHEL 4 and 5 servers up to authenticate with our
>>>> Windows
>>>> server 2008 Active Directory. Using "authconfig --update --enableldap
>>>> --enableldapauth
>>>> --ldapserver=ldap.example.com--ldapbasedn=dn=example,dn=com"
>>>> and adding "binddn" and "bindpw" to the /etc/ldap.conf file, it looks
>>>> like
>>>> the linux box is connecting correctly to the AD server. But running
>>>> "getent
>>>> passwd <some-linux-user-defined-on-AD>" doesn't return any result.
>>>>
>>>> I'm suspecting that maybe it's my nss_ldap attribute mappings that are
>>>> not
>>>> correct. I have no attribute mapping defined, since I would think that
>>>> there
>>>> would be some default mappings that would work. Are there any default
>>>> mapping, and in case what are they? Or maybe "authconfig" set up these
>>>> mappings automatically? Any advice is appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Kenneth Holter
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