Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:07:47 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centralized user/group/whatever management Message-ID: <20200314060747.GH27346@admin.sibptus.ru> In-Reply-To: <96ed1afa-e0e1-51a2-997b-e95097a1d0b4@gmx.net> References: <20200313091923.GA98495@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200313143130.GA68871@geeks.org> <96ed1afa-e0e1-51a2-997b-e95097a1d0b4@gmx.net>
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--6lXr1rPCNTf1w0X8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Michael Osipov wrote: > Am 2020-03-13 um 15:31 schrieb Doug McIntyre: > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 04:19:23PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > Do you think there exists a modern solution for centralized user/grou= p/... > > > management compatible with FreeBSD and Linux? > >=20 > > I think the best combination is probably a Windows AD setup, with > > FreeBSD/Linux clients attaching to it. (Although I still do external DNS > > importing the AD objects into it, really can't stand windows DNS). > >=20 > > This does work really seamless, the GUI tools are well utilized. > >=20 > > It really gets you the hard part (LDAP, Kerberos) in a pretty easy to > > use package. I don't know how many hours I've spent on OpenLDAP > > getting it to work with things, and management packages for OpenLDAP > > are pretty sucky overall. >=20 > I agree here with Doug, as strange as it sounds, Samba is your best bet. > When you provision your domain you shall enable the POSIX extensions. It > will create all GECOS stuff. pam_winbind is also nice. So pam_winbind it is, if you want to use AD for user/group management? Does winbindd not crash any more under FreeBSD?=20 Do you need to also enable winbind somehow in nsswitch.conf?=20 >=20 > One must simply admit that Active Directory is a wellthought system not > just for Unix. You may join your machines either with Samba, more easily > with msktutil (disclainer, I am a maintainer) with works flawlessly on > FreeBSD. I'll certainly look at it if I have to integrate FreeBSD into Windows AD.= =20 However first I'd like to find a free, open source solution for a Unix-only office. Hope it will not eventually come to buying a Windows server to manage Linux and FreeBSD workstations. --=20 Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ --6lXr1rPCNTf1w0X8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJebHSzAAoJEA2k8lmbXsY0hIsH/0JXJq4zBSCCPCf7rkAvbNN6 LAT8bi6Rp4Ot9Sn/HolNwjpng4uWEhULz35fVi4gGhA6d09ANAM1XtifRFa8ctsZ xWjw6XBwyqscqDzm65766lt8HenWeoNCSyCSb24aoNXtHzIf2i4pr6717rVKs3JO g1P6Ol+xSaoV/teGxHCqYB+/vR/+LyeC99EbBLPlqhSZHY0DsDZxpy1gzWo0qIw/ mrB0leFOgKtzYFPY7w1rDB68QcrWpItiQ6Zn5u23w+X780ieJ1HSShqdOpOnjQx/ 96ciDa714QX445SMeiLOvRq9HSH084XUkQyCZ9jW8e2zEtVlLmASdHTWxFbdc7Y= =hAzW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6lXr1rPCNTf1w0X8--
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