On 7 May 2015 21:49, "Alfred von Campe" alfred@von-campe.com wrote:
I would like to move to CentOS 7 and a model where we don’t use NIS at
all, the users and (local) home directories are automatically created on login using the UID stored on the LDAP server. Before I re-invent the wheel, has somebody done this already? If so, can you share the authconfig line from your Kickstart file? To summarize, I’d like to:
Use LDAP/Kerberos provided by Windows AD servers to authenticate users Automatically create accounts/home directories upon first login Not require the system to be on the network (provided the user has logged
in at least once to create the account locally)
Someone was asking in the #rhel irc room about something similar yesterday.
I blogged about native AD authentication last year:
https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/5
All our corporate Linux systems auth against our samba4 AD servers in a similar manner.
There is good information at docs.redhat.com on such integration as well and if you are focusing on c7 then realmd also simplifies this process (not available on c6).