sorry I don’t have any real documentation but I have a snippet of powershell that explains it pretty well here
this comes from a user creation script I wrote back when they removed the unix UI.
I was using Get-AdUser and discovered that the properties still existed but you have to manually shove those in, when an sssd “domain bound” linux machine has a user with these props login, they get the defined UID and GID and homefolder etc.
basically the “OtherAttributes” on the ADUser object is a hashtable that holds all the special additional LDAP attributes, so in this example we use $otherAttributes to add all the fields we need, you can do the same with “Set-Aduser” if you just wanna edit an existing user and add these props
the @thing on New-ADuser is called a splat, very useful if you’re not familiar, it turns a hashtable into arguments
Yep. i imagine the long time between initial announcement and still waiting, is getting it right for realease. At least I hope that is why it has taken so long
I thought this stopped working after MS pulled the Unix subsystem, as samba was using those attributes to manage the Linux systems?
Microsoft pulled those from the UI, but if you’re adventurous you can just shove those attributes in to user with power shell and it works the same.
Then just use sssd instead of NIS, surprised me at work when this worked.
Do you have any documentation on this by any chance? I don’t really like messing with ad schemas
sorry I don’t have any real documentation but I have a snippet of powershell that explains it pretty well here this comes from a user creation script I wrote back when they removed the unix UI.
I was using Get-AdUser and discovered that the properties still existed but you have to manually shove those in, when an sssd “domain bound” linux machine has a user with these props login, they get the defined UID and GID and homefolder etc.
basically the “OtherAttributes” on the ADUser object is a hashtable that holds all the special additional LDAP attributes, so in this example we use $otherAttributes to add all the fields we need, you can do the same with “Set-Aduser” if you just wanna edit an existing user and add these props
the @thing on New-ADuser is called a splat, very useful if you’re not familiar, it turns a hashtable into arguments
lemme know if you have any questions
I don’t know. I just found this why looking for something else.
Grid by Zorin, whenever it gets released, will be what you want
But is it distro acrostic?
time will tell once it is released.
If it is at least somewhat distro agnostic and has commercial support available they will get lots of business.
Yep. i imagine the long time between initial announcement and still waiting, is getting it right for realease. At least I hope that is why it has taken so long
Zoin isn’t exactly known for long term stability or regular releases. That why I can’t really recommend it.
We need tooling but Zoin probably isn’t where it will come from.