FreeIPA

Intro After setting up the AD trust, every time I logged in the shell defaulted to /bin/sh. To change it to /bin/bash or any other shell of your choice you can do the following. Editing SSSD.conf Navigate to /etc/sssd/ and open sssd.conf in an elevated text editor. It should look something like …

Intro After creating my domain trust between AD and FreeIPA, I was left wanting to access restricted resources in Linux using my AD accounts. To circumvent this, I mapped a group from AD to FreeIPA and gave it the appropriate permissions. Create the group in AD The first step would be to create a …

Intro After creating a trust in FreeIPA, I kept having to write the full domain alongside my username whenever I tried to access the system. These are the steps I took to log in only with my username. Editing SSSD.conf Navigate to /etc/sssd/ and open sssd.conf in an elevated text editor. It should …

Intro I’ve been playing around with FreeIPA in my homelab for a while and have always wanted to enable seamless authentication between all my hosts regardless of their operating system. I stumbled upon the concept of cross-domain trusts between FreeIPA and Active Directory which allows us to …

Intro While setting up my hosts with FreeIPA, I noticed that home directories were not being created when logging in through ssh. Looking online it seems that most people just use NFS shares to keep home directories the same across devices but I did not want to set up NFS home shares. Fixing this in …