[Samba] Domain join with realm

[Rowland Penny]

On 09/02/2023 08:09, Ralph Boehme wrote:
> On 2/9/23 09:02, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>> Realmd, sssd etc were written by red-hat for use against FreeIPA and 
>> hence that is what red-hat supports.
> 
> fwiw, I don't think this is the full picture. Iirc sssd and the tooling 
> are designed to join Linux systems to a several directory services, 
> FreeIPA being one of them, AD and pure LDAP are others.
> 
> In fact, iirc, the realm join command, depending on arguments, actually 
> uses net ads join to join to AD.
> 
> Ideally we would have something on the wiki that explains this. 
> @Andreas: would you be able to start a wiki page with a quick overview 
> this stuff?
> 
> -slow
> 

Why are we even talking about providing support for something that Samba 
does not provide ?

If I remember correctly, there used to be a Samba wikipage about using 
sssd, but it was removed because Samba could not support sssd because 
Samba does not write it.

In my opinion, the best place for information about realmd and sssd is 
in the red-hat controlled wikis.

Rowland