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Learning RHEL Networking

You're reading from   Learning RHEL Networking Gain Linux administration skills by learning new networking concepts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287831
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introducing Enterprise Linux 7 FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Network Settings 3. Configuring Key Network Services 4. Implementing iSCSI SANs 5. Implementing btrfs 6. File Sharing with NFS 7. Implementing Windows Shares with Samba 4 8. Integrating RHEL 7 into Microsoft Active Directory Domains 9. Deploying the Apache HTTPD Server 10. Securing the System with SELinux 11. Network Security with firewalld Index

Understanding Active Directory as an identity provider for sssd


In many ways, something this simple is very welcome on Linux; however, the simplicity is in masking the complex series of events and procedures that occur behind the scenes. It's now time to delve into what makes sssd work.

We first need to remind ourselves of all the configurations that we added in the only manual part of the process, that is, setting up the infrastructure services of time and DNS required for integration into the Active Directory. The following diagram shows the relationship between the RHEL server and Active Directory:

When we interrogated the Active Directory domain with realm, we could see from the resulting information that we required the sssd package among others. The System Security Services Daemon (sssd) provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authenticate mechanisms, in our case, the Active Directory. The sssd service provides the NSS (Name Service Switch) and PAM (Pluggable...

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