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Domain join

Wiki Pusher edited this page Sep 5, 2022 · 1 revision

The domain join works like this:

  • 1 The SSSD user cache is cleared using sssctl cache-remove --stop --start --override
  • 2 Existing domain joins are removed / left using realm leave. They are queried using realm list
  • 3 Available domains are discovered using realm discover
    • If a domain was specified using the --domain parameter, and this domain is found, it will be joined
    • If no domain was specified, the first discovered domain will be joined
    • If no domain was found or the specified domain was not found, the setup will exit with an error
  • 4 The /etc/linuxmuster-linuxclient7/network.conf file is written
    • The necessary details are queried using adcli info $DOMAIN where $DOMAIN is the domain which is going to be joined
  • 5 All templates in /usr/share/linuxmuster-linuxclient7/templates are applied
  • 6 Services are restarted
  • 7 The Domain is joined
    • 7.1 A Kerberos ticket for global-admin (or the user specified by --user) is pulled. (this is where the password prompt comes from)
    • 7.2 The domain is joined using realm join -v $DOMAIN --no-password (this is using the Kerberos ticket from 7.1)
  • 8 The Server CA certificate is installed on the client
    • 8.1 The sysvol is mounted using the Kerberos ticket from 7.1
    • 8.2 The CA Certificate is copied from \\sysvol\$DOMAIN\tls\cacert.pem to /var/lib/samba/private/tls/$DOMAIN.pem
  • 9 The SSSD configuration in /etc/sssd/sssd.conf is adjusted:
    • use_fully_qualified_names is set to False to allow user to login using $USERNAME instead of $USERNAME@$DOMAIN
    • override_homedir is set to /home/%u
    • krb5_validate is set to False. This is necessary because the KVNO in /etc/krb5.keytab might not match the msDS-KeyVersionNumber in the AD which will lead to SSSD errors when krb5_validate is set to True
  • 10 A final test is run to make sure the domain join worked by testing if the group domain users exists using getent group "domain users".