[Samba] Winbind and GPO access restrictions?

[Patrick Goetz]

On 10/1/21 13:43, Robert Marcano via samba wrote:
> On 10/1/21 2:21 PM, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/1/21 12:52, Robert Marcano via samba wrote:
>>> On 10/1/21 12:02 PM, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
>>>> While most of my campus Samba projects are still going to need to 
>>>> play nice with at least sssd id mapping, I do have one project 
>>>> which, based on discussions on this list, I was planning to 
>>>> configure strictly with winbind, since the AD DC is going to be 
>>>> Samba and it's the rare luxury where I get to control everything.
>>>>
>>>> However, a couple of days ago I had an anxiety-inducing thought. 
>>>> This is a mixed windows/linux environment, and one of the features 
>>>> the end users would like and which I've already promised them is 
>>>> that the linux machines would have different access restrictions 
>>>> from the Windows desktops. The way I've been doing this with sssd is 
>>>> creating a GPO applied to the host (or set of hosts) which restricts 
>>>> access to a particular security group.
>>>>
>>>> Reading through this page: 
>>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Group_Policy
>>>> it's not clear this would also be possible with winbind.  Would such 
>>>> a thing fall under the category of "smb.conf Policies"?  It doesn't 
>>>> seem like it, since smb.conf access restrictions are most aimed at 
>>>> share control.
>>>>
>>>
>>> With winbind alone you will not be able to do that, you will need to 
>>> use classic Linux mechanism to control login (pam files editing for 
>>> example) and maybe automate the deployment on all machines by other 
>>> means (Ansible, Puppet, etc)
>>>
>>> Samba doesn't apply any GPO rules to Linux hosts. It is a sssd 
>>> feature to apply login restriction policies if enabled (and only a 
>>> few of them that make sense to Linux hosts)
>>>
>>
>> Oh wow. So I guess winbind can not do everything sssd does, and I'm 
>> guessing that using idmap_sss doesn't help with this issue, either.
>>
>> Looks like I'm back to using RFC 2307 mapping and doing what Rowland 
>> said not to do: just matching the UIDs/GIDs on the linux systems. But 
>> that's headache equivalent to using Ansible to copy around modified 
>> PAM configuration files and solves the other problem I have of at 
>> least one linux machine that needs file access being behind someone 
>> else's AD domain.
>>
>> Now I'm mystified at how people are using newer versions of Samba in a 
>> mixed Windows/Linux environment. If your linux workstations (i.e. not 
>> fileservers) are bound to the domain, you most certainly want them to 
>> be using domain authentication restrictions and not some ad hoc thing 
>> you have to cobble together and deploy with CMS every time the 
>> directory changes. I guess this is the problem that RHEL idM solves by 
>> foresting with a Samba DC; no idea; I have no experience with this 
>> whatsoever.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, is anyone out there using full blown sssd with a 
>> Samba version > 4.8?  Is that even a thing?
> 
> The semi official stance of the list is that SSSD isn't supported. But 
> my real world usage tell that a Samba member file server, with active 
> shares published and ACLs and everything else for it, works, I am not 
> sure if a Samba usage more complex than that doesn´t work, but for my 
> use case, works.
> 
> CentOS 8 provided packages:
> 
> sssd-2.4.0-9.el8_4.2
> samba-4.13.3-4.el8_4
> 
> The magic is that Samba requires winbind, you should run winbind, but 
> that doen't means that /etc/nsswitch.conf must include winbind, mine 
> doesn't. it only include sssd. Winbind id mapping is configured to match 
> SSSD id mapping for AD domains. Winbind and SSSD use of 
> /etc/nsswitch.conf to map user and group names to and from ids.


Brilliant. I'm kicking myself that I didn't think of this.


> 
> SSSD can use more nsswitch tables like sudoers but groups and users are 
> the main conflict between winbind and sssd on nsswitch.conf
> 
> Another tip is to use ad_maximum_machine_account_password_age = 0 on 
> sssd.conf, probably doesn't needed anymore, latest SSSD has a new 
> setting to sync passwords changes with the local Samba instance, but 
> that wasn't on the SSSD packages for RHEL/CentOS 8 at the time I setup 
> everything.
> 

But if you're using

    idmap config SAMDOM : backend = sss

then Windbind isn't keeping a local database?



> I will write a little howto in the future, now that there was some 
> discussions about SSSD on the list, but for know I am too busy with some 
> changes on my country at work (currency exchange switch caused bt high 
> inflation, yea yea Venezuela :P). Maybe ping me in a few weeks if I 
> haven´t published anything.
> 

Oh goodness. Hang in there; it sounds awful.  My great-grandfather kept 
a scrap book of German currency during the 1920's inflation spiral. The 
last banknote in his book was a one million DM note that had been 
stamped over with one billion because it wasn't worth the paper to 
reprint them from scratch.