Tuesday, August 19, 2008

SUSE Linux and Microsoft AD integration

Novell Incorporation had recently widely announce the agreement within Microsoft and Novell to further improve the interoperational for both products family. The recent and latest release for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and Desktop both show the user friendly to easily integrate the Linux machine to Microsoft Active Directory services during the provisioning process. In previous version of SUSE Linux, you require to manually configure some of the configuration file for kerberos, smb.conf and etc. With Suse Linux 10, you will able to join the server as part of the Activie directory through GUI. This had simplified the entire process and time to get the Linux machine on the Active Directory during the setup wizard.

Sudo is perfectly work as long as the right configuration are in place for the sudo files. I am currently plan to implement this solution to some potential server which require user ineraction log on to the Linux environment. This will able to simplify the samba share, log on authentication and of course we will not require to manage users locally. Biggest advantage will be simplify the compliance method to be able to authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory. Single sign on seems to be workable in this case

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