> > On 21 January 2016 at 12:03, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: > >> On Jan 20, 2016, at 5:52 PM, Henry McLaughlin <henry at incred.com.au> >> wrote: >> > >> > I am new to CentOS and trying to setup a Samba file server however when >> > discovering domains I receive an authorisation error: >> > >> > [root at sssd-testing ~]# id >> > uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) >> > [root at sssd-testing ~]# realm discover >> > realm: Couldn't discover realms: Not authorized to perform this action >> >> Double-posting, I see: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/256626/ >> >> Have you tried giving the domain name? DHCP might not be getting the >> correct one. >> >> (ObWarStory: We installed our system at a site a few months ago that used >> one domain name for their public web site and email, another for internal >> AD stuff, and gave us yet a third when we asked for AD login credentials. >> Needless to say, neither the first nor the third were the right values, and >> we had to go round and round with them until they admitted the existence of >> the second domain name.) >> >> Also, I’m pretty sure it’s not complaining about local permissions here. >> You should not have to be root to make this work. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > Hi Warren and thanks for the reply. I have tried both with and without the > domain name without success. > Been researching further... to answer you question above: [root at sssd-testing ~]# realm discover realm: Couldn't discover realms: Not authorized to perform this action [root at sssd-testing ~]# realm discover ad.samdom.com.au realm: Couldn't discover realms: Not authorized to perform this action [root at sssd-testing ~]# realm list [root at sssd-testing ~]# I did find the following which implies it has to do with polkit however I do have polkit installed: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90683