[Samba] SSSD on CentOS 7 failing to start when connecting to 4.8.3 AD via LDAP

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:45:09 +1000
Mark Johnson <mark.johnson.iovox at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Rowland,
> 
> I realised my issue was likely to not be a Samba issue per se,
> however I wasn't sure if it was related to the issue I was having
> importing the active directory schema for sudo configuration and was
> just taking a punt that maybe somebody else here had experienced this
> and had some information that might be useful.
> 
> My apologies for wasting your time.  I'll try sssd-users.  Thanks for
> the push in the (hopefully) right direction.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 20 July 2018 at 17:32, Rowland Penny via samba
> <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:35:59 +1000
> > Mark Johnson via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I've been going around in circles with this for days and I'm
> > > stuck. I'm trying to run up a new AD environment with only Samba
> > > 4.8.3 servers that we'll authenticate user server access against
> > > via SSSD/LDAP using a simple bind.  All of our servers are either
> > > CentOS 6 or 7.
> > >
> >
> > Hmm, so you are using a red-hat product (sssd) on red-hat OS against
> > Samba and you are having problems. Can I point out that sssd has
> > nothing to do with Samba, so you should ask either Centos or the
> > sssd-users mailing list for help.
> >
> > This may not be the answer you were seeking, but you will get better
> > help elsewhere, we are not the experts on sssd, the sssd-users
> > mailing list is.
> >
> > Rowland
> >
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It is unlikely to be because you have the sudo schema in AD, I have it
in mine without any problems. I suppose I should point out that you do
not need sssd to use Sudo in AD.

Rowland