On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 13:00, Arnau Bria wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> first of all thanks for your answer.
>
> I'm not and AD/LDAP/SSSD expert, sorry in advance for my ignorance.

I'm certainly no expert, I was just pointing you in the direction of a
recent thread on this topic.

> this is what I understand:
>
>> those changes might require to use LDAP with TLS either with START_TLS on 
>> the LDAP port or using LDAPS.
>
>
> I understand that we have to enforce TLS or LDAPS (which bring to my original 
> email, how?).
>
>>
>> Additionally SSSD uses SASL/GSSAPI/GSS-SPNEGO for encryption with cannot
>>
>>
>
> for the above methods  (and according to 
> https://docs.pagure.org/SSSD.sssd/users/ldap_with_ad.html) I must join the 
> computer to the domain (something I cannot do). so, back to ldap with TSL/SSL?

It certainly looks that way, so if your machines can't be
domain-joined then you do need to config LDAPS or LDAP+STARTLS.

> I still don't understand why ldaps is not required for encrypted comms. Could 
> you please elaborate a little your answer?
> If we stick to ldap provider , who should we configure sssd if we cannot join 
> the server to the domain?

GSSAPI is used to encrypt traffic over an LDAP session which is
otherwise not transport-encrypted, as I understand it.

Cheers,

John

-- 
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http://redux.org.uk/                                 -- William Blake
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