The administrative computing and network unit at my institution seem to
want to force us to use Microsoft Active Directory and SCCM. The
generalities that have been released to date are quoted below:
*Recommendation*
1.
Work with the ITC’s across the University to join all University
NB: ITC Information Technology Consultant (a California State University
staff position designation) -- a technician, typically with a BS in IT or a
related field, who has hardware and software control over
non-administrative-computing Faculty MS Windows or Mac OS X workstations.
End quote.
When Fermilab deployed Kerberos 5 on all of our unix and linux,
and simultaneously Windows 2000 on our Windows side, it was the
intent that eventually everything would run off of the windows
Active Directory side. 14 years later that has never happened.
There are others on this list that know in
I've never heard of SCCM but the Microsoft's AD thing is doable but difficult.The Unix extensions help but they don't automatically assign UID numbers or GID numbers to users so people often time use 3rd party software to do it for them.Kerberos integration is simple all you need is the Pam
2014-08-05 20:29 GMT+03:00 Paul Robert Marino prmari...@gmail.com:
I've never heard of SCCM but the Microsoft's AD thing is doable but
difficult.
Doable, not difficult as it required only authconfig command twice.
man authconfig
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Eero
Well the if you read my post the difficult part is setting the UID
numbers and GID numbers in the AD server.
yes the authconfig portion is the easy part.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote:
2014-08-05 20:29 GMT+03:00 Paul Robert Marino
For integrating non-Windows OSes into Active Directory, we use software from
Centrify. There are some issues that we've run into with Mac systems, but
there really aren't that many COTS products in that space. The key is that it
allows for application of Group Policies to the Mac systems.
As
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote:
2014-08-05 20:29 GMT+03:00 Paul Robert Marino prmari...@gmail.com:
I've never heard of SCCM but the Microsoft's AD thing is doable but
difficult.
Doable, not difficult as it required only authconfig command
