I am jotting down my recipe for RedHat 7.3 Linux and providing user logins from Microsoft’s Active Directory. This was tested with two AWS instances and Microsoft AD 2016. There are many articles around the Interwebs but in short things became a lot easier with SSSD in most major distributions.…
CIFS ACLs on ZFS Problem
Recently had an issue with a CIFS share on a Solaris 11 box. Still not sure how this happened but it turned out there was a weird Idmap mapping. Active Directory Group and members were correct and group had correct members. Yet still the users in this group could not…
Python-ldap Query MS Active Directory
I use Python to pull Active Directory information sometimes. In my case mainly to report or view information but also to create files in a LDIF or PowerShell format. These can be manually run on the Domain Controller later. For instance find all users in a Distribution List or Group…