Ubuntu's ADSys

[Rowland penny]

On 26/04/2021 11:44, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On ma, 26 huhti 2021, Rowland penny via samba-technical wrote:
>> On 26/04/2021 11:27, Douglas Bagnall via samba-technical wrote:
>>> I noticed that Ubuntu 21.04 was announced with "native Microsoft Active
>>> Directory integration":
>>>
>>> https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-21-04-is-here
>>>
>>> It looks like this is based on a project called "ADSys" (GPLv3, written in
>>> Go), that works as a GPO client.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ubuntu/adsys
>>>
>>> They use Samba in their tests, as far as I can tell.
>>>
>>>
>>> Douglas
>>>
>>>
>> Well, if they did use Samba, which version of Samba ? I ask because I tried
>> 21.04 in a VM against my Samba AD domain and it didn't work. No matter what
>> permutation of username I used, I couldn't log in. I found out that 'getent'
>> didn't return any AD users.
>  From my cursory look over the code, there is an assumption that AD users
> all named fully-qualified, e.g. user at ad.domain. @ is hard-coded in
> multiple places. They seem to test it with SSSD.
>
>

I had another look at this by installing Ubuntu 21.04 in a new VM. It 
still didn't work, but by working through the errors, I tracked it to 
sssd. Installed the fix I found on the internet and it now works.

Rowland