Questions tagged [active-directory]

Questions that relate to Ubuntu using this directory service created by Microsoft. Compatibility questions include LDAP, Kerberos and DNS-based naming and other network information.

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Remove a domain user account from local workstation, not from AD Domain

I have an AD Domain run by Samba4 and have successfully joined Ubuntu workstations to that domain and able to add users and log into the workstation with domain accounts. Now, I am needing to remove ...
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nautilus crash when try to give permission on folder 14.04

Nautilus crash problem when i trying to open folder properties and go to permission option at that time nautilus crash. I am not able to set permission on it.
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Access Denied Domain Users Ubuntu 14.04 using Powerbroker

I am binding computers running Ubuntu 14.04 to our AD environment. I followed all the sets to configure the system and I am able to login with a domain account. However, when I restart the computer ...
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How to setup a Ubuntu Raid to be accessed by the Domain Active Directory Server

I'm new to this. I have setup a Ubuntu 12.04 server on a Dell PowerEdge FS-12. I have setup a large area on the FS-12 (raid 50) to replace one of the drive mappings on the windows 2003 server. I ...
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How to allow local logins, after misconfiguring PAM in AD integration process

Aim: Create an R server that integrates into our Windows environment by setting up AD integration on an Ubuntu box Using: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Following: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/...
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13.10 Active directory users are not administrator

In 12.04 I am able to login into Ubuntu with my windows domain user login and also I can have admin privileges to install softwares and apps. But in 13.10 I am able to login, But I am not an ...
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Multi-user disk-less workstation using Beyond Trust PowerBroker Identity Services Open Edition (formerly Likewise)

I am attempting to create a multi-user disk-less workstation environment where all workstations will use the same image from the same tftp boot server and use Windows active directory log-in ...
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likewise open auth to AD

I have installed likewise open via apt-get on 11.04 server 32 bit and have sucessfully joined our domain. however when trying to login via putty using a domain account I cannot complete the ...
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Creating New Network

This has probably been hashed out somewhere here, but I haven’t found it: I’m a high school teacher, and assistant tech coordinator. I’m thinking of converting my lab to Ubuntu and currently have some ...
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Integrate Ubuntu desktop to a Windows network

I currently have a Windows network (1 Windows 2008 R2 Server as the domain controller and 1 Windows Vista Client). I have a Ubuntu 32 bit 10.04 client only (No Linux Server - so the client is not on ...
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Delay displaying Active directory user in GDM

After a lot of struggle, I have finally been able to make my laptop work not too bad with Active Directory/winbind authentication. Anyway, I have an annoying issue that I can't figure out. For the ...
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Unable to join and authenticate ubuntu server with AD domain

We have followed up with the steps in the below ubuntu site to configure and join ubuntu server with windows AD domain. https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/service-sssd-ad Post completion of steps we are ...
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Slow network traffic with DNS only after migrating Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 LTS to airgapped network

I have two networks in my environment, a main network and an offline/air-gapped network. The standard process for deploying Ubuntu servers to the air-gapped network is to clone a template VM on the ...
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Can't login with domain user after ADSys installation - fetching policy fails, getting GPT.ini invalid argument error

I've implemented Adsys in a virtual environment containing a an ubuntu 22.04 pro and a regular ubuntu 20.04 and an AD server running windows server 2022. Before installing the ADSys the computers had ...
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Prevent root user to switch user to any Disabled AD user

root user is able to "su" to an user which is Disabled in AD. As it's a security concern, need to prevent root user to su to any AD users, who is disabled in AD. It should check the user ...
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SSSD Configuration to Authenticate a one-way trusted domain user

I have a Microsoft "REDFOREST" Active Directory Deployment. I have my REDFOREST domain with all my user accounts. I have my "RESOURCE" domains that have a one-way trust of the ...
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Ubuntu VM Full disk encryption, storing keys in Azure

We currently have a solution to have our data partition encrypted with the keys stored on the system partition to allow for booting without user interaction, but not our system partition as we have no ...
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Cannot make Active Directory offline connection persistent

After several weeks of tries and failure, I finally need to ask for help. For starters, I use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, that I have setup with winbind, PAM, Kerberos. Overall, I am trying to make a ...
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Active Directory Group Membership (refenced in the sudoers file) is Intermittent via SSH

ENVIRONMENT We are operating several Ubuntu 22.04 systems. The systems are added to a Windows Active Directory Domain via the GUI as part of the initial configuration. We have an Active Directory ...
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connecting 22.04 LTS to Active Directory: GSSAPI Error [...] (Server not found in Kerberos database)

I am trying to connect the Ubuntu computers of my department to our active directory which worked well for quiet some of them by now. However, currently I stuck with a computer that has recently been ...
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How to use nslcd to bind windows AD

I try to use nslcd to auth by LDAP server, if openldap, works fine, but try to WindowsAD, always fail but the similar config on CentOS is ok, I config the /etc/nslcd, /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/pam.d/...
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ADsys Group Policy Objects - User Policies not Caching or Processing

I've got a 22.04 system joined to Active Directory, ADsys installed, a few group policies created. User authentication works fine, machine/computer policies are applying successfully. However, user ...
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Administrator option is disabled for domain accounts in Ubuntu 22.04

I am the domain admin. My domain account in my system have administrator option disabled. I have tried adding the user to sudoers. That didn't work. Any other way? When opening the software centre or ...
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Anbox and OpenLDAP to Active Directory for SSO

Anbox and OpenLDAP to Active Directory for SSO We would love to use Anbox with our Active Directory for user authentication. We have Windows 10 OS Instance using Active Direction for logon, being able ...
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Can't login to domain users after enroll successfully Ubuntu 22.04

I'm working on ubuntu 22.04. I installed all the required packages and enroll successfully to my domain. my dc is on Windows server 2008 r2. when I'm trying to login to any domain user after I'm ...
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Give access to specific Active Directory Groups and local users

I have a server which is connected to the active directory, everything works fine (at least I guess) and everyone can access the server with their AD credentials, but I wan only specific group to be ...
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How to allow AD group to run elevated commands from the desktop in Ubuntu 22.04

I've seen a number of similar questions, but none that quite cover my situation. I have an Ubuntu desktop 22.04 system, setup for authentication against a Active Directory. I have a domain group ...
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Error: "System error" when joining server to Active Directory with SSSD

I am trying to join an Ubuntu 20.04LTS server to an Active Directory using the instructions found here. Everything goes well until I get to test the login in this section: Finally, how about we try a ...
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After logging in with my AD credentials, why can I not change any settings?

I've been setting up a new machine with Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop. And since I'm on the IT team, I've been using it as an opportunity to broaden my knowledge of configuring Ubuntu for a work environment, ...
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Domains are not found after joining Ubuntu 22.04 to Active Directory using SSSD

Since Ubuntu 20.04 we are using SSSD and realmd to join these server to one of our Active Directory domains. This works (almost) out-of-the-box. For Ubuntu 22.04, however, we run into issues. And I am ...
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Stuck joining Ubuntu Studio 22.04.1 to Active Directory

I am trying to join my freshly installed Ubuntu Studio 22.04.1 to an AD domain hosted on my Synology NAS, by following the instructions in this white paper, starting on page 11 ("Joining After ...
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Working with windows shared file in ubuntu

We are using windows(8.1 & 10) and ubuntu(20.04) in our network environment. When we open a xls,word file in ubuntu which is already opened in windows it is not prompting as a read only and also ...
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Login failure after successfully adding Ubuntu 22.04 machine to the domain

I have successfully added my machine to my company's domain. When I try to login with my domain credentials at the login screen or via su I see a message "Applying machine settings" and the ...
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Ldap - access for specific machines

We have LDAP server with 300+ users-10 servers with different group. when we creating the users, every user has access of all the 10 servers. So I want to restrict the user access. So LDAP user or ...
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su: Permission denied as root

I added my Ubuntu Machine to AD and I can do an ID these user accounts but when I'm logged in as root I can't su to these accounts e.g. su: Permission denied any reason why? is there something I miss ...
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How to select a different user to authenticate Livepatch with?

I am an IT Admin and recently set up an Ubuntu 18.04 laptop for one of my users. As apart of the process, I create a local admin account to set things up and join the computer to our Active Directory ...
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How to Allow Samba Shares for Domain users?

I have a samba server with shares using POSIX ACL. We installed the Active Directory domain controller by using Turnkey image, I joined Ubuntu Server to the domain following this , Installed ...
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Can't login with AD account

I can't login with an AD user account with freshly installed Ubuntu 21.10 (also tried 20.04). id <AD user> works like expected. When I try to login ubuntu keeps saying "can`t login with ...
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Active directory users based on numeric values not able to login

Active directory based on numeric(01012578) not able to login but wit the same DC we are able to login using name username Eg. syed client o.s 20.0.4 desktop version AD script #!/bin/sh #Linux ...
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LDAP binding error

I have a secure LDAP configured on a Active Directory. I am trying to query it using the ldapsearch command on Ubuntu. Following are dummy details: Domain Name: dc=qwerty,dc=com LDAP Server: ...
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Anyone happen to know if with 21.04 AD integration, tighter integration with Certificate Services is being considered?

As an admin in a mixed environment, the biggest bane of my existence it trying to issue internal certs. Right now the only option is using NDES/SCEP, but Microsoft apparently has no interest in ...
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How to use fingerprint reader with Ubuntu 20.04 and sssd (active directory)

I've been trying to get fingerprint login working for a new Lenovo ThinkPad P15v, and had seen the information here and other places suggesting that fingerprint login was available in default 20.04 in ...
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Ubuntu vsftpd hide other folder and disable possibility to browse them

I'm relatively new to Linux. I am creating an SFTP server using vsftpd on ubuntu 20. I'm authenticating users with Active directory. The problem I have, is that even though the user land in their home ...
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Samba AD DC no longer accepts login using domain accounts

I've been trying to setup Samba AD DC on Ubuntu 20.04 for a good while now and with some success. I use the server which runs this Samba instance as my primary workstation, so I need to be able to log ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 fails to join Windows AD domain

I am new with Ubuntu / Linux. I am attempting to join a Ubuntu 20.04 machine to a Windows domain using the following command: sudo realm join -v ad1.example.com This fails with the following error: ...
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Sysvolcheck returns error on backup DC upon each replication

I have two DCs in my Samba AD with sysvol replication via rsync set up to run every 5 minutes. On the PDC, samba-tool ntacl sysvolcheck returns no errors. On the BDC, samba-tool ntacl sysvolcheck ...
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How to get Active Directory domain name from windows 10 client

I install OpenLDAP as an Active Directory on ubuntu 18.04 and I connect my windows client by pGina. Its work fine but when ping my server ip address it reply but if I ping my host name nad.nassa.lan ...
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On Samba DCs running on Ubuntu Server 20.04, is DNS resolution handled by by the netplan config or by resolv.conf?

Apologies if this might be a silly question. I'm reading that best practice when having two DCs in a domain is to point their DNS addresses at each other and also at themselves. So: DC1 nameservers = ...
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Can I configure a Samba AD with RFC2307 and join another Samba domain member with idmap RID backend?

I have a Samba AD DC that I provisioned with --rfc2307. I also have a separate Samba file server that is joined to this domain, and its smb.conf is configured with idmap_rid. So far everything works ...
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Ubuntu 20 on Active Directory -- wrong user and group IDs assigned

I'm trying to join my Ubuntu 20 virtual machine to our Active Directory setup. Everything seems to be working, except the user IDs shown for users do not match what is in Active Directory. This means ...
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