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Your Active Directory system doesn’t have to be a walled garden. A few easy steps are all you need to integrate Linux with AD.

Ali Imran Nagori

If your organization manages a network that includes both Windows and Linux machines, you might want to implement a unified authentication mechanism. Many businesses rely on Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) as their directory service of choice (see the “Active Directory” box). Microsoft AD has dominated the market for corporate access control for many years. Joining a Microsoft client to Active Directory is nearly effortless – you don’t need an ADMIN article to explain it. Adding a Linux system is still easy, but the process requires a few more steps. In this article, I first show you how to join a Linux machine to your Windows AD domain. Following that, I’ll use Active Directory as the main place to manage all users, making administrative tasks easier and less time consuming. I’ll…

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