ADMIN Network & Security (Digital)

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Keeping Track

In Winbind v4.17, the Samba team has addressed the complexity of and difficulty in troubleshooting the logging service that allows Linux systems to join an Active Directory domain.
Keeping Track
The Winbind service offers various services for the name service switch (NSS) and pluggable authentication modules (PAMs). On the Windows side, Winbind communicates with the Local Security Authority (LSA), Netlogon, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) services of a domain controller to localize user accounts, read user data, and ultimately authenticate users. You can use Samba’s own net tool, but also Realm [1], as the front end for joining a client to a domain. With Realm, you need to specify the --client-software=winbind option to ensure that the Winbind service and not the system security services daemon (SSSD) is used to join a domain. Cluttered Logfiles The primary Winbind process creates a separate child process for each logical AD domain that the service wants to access. Each process is also assigned…
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