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Special Forums Cybersecurity Looking for suggestion on authentication method for UNIX/Windows Post 302996175 by solaris_1977 on Thursday 20th of April 2017 09:19:35 PM
Old 04-20-2017
Looking for suggestion on authentication method for UNIX/Windows

Hello,

We have mid level infrastructure of all on-premises servers. All windows servers are getting authenticated by Microsoft Active Directory Services, half Unix (Solaris+Linux) servers are getting authentication by NIS and other half by LDAP.

We have plans to migrate from NIS to LDAP, so going forward it will all LDAP and Microsoft AD.
Recently we started looking into hosting our few servers on AWS and that made us looking into different prospective.

We are not going to build new/another AD on AWS, but we will use our on-primises directory services for authentication.
Will it be a good approch to integrate LDAP with AD, so that single sign-on can be achieved ?
Or most people will prefer to keep UNIX authentication by LDAP and Windows authentication by Microsoft AD ?
Should I consider any pros or cons with either of these solutions ?
As of now, we are planning to put dashboard application on AWS with two tomcat (web servers) servers, two DB servers. But going forward, this environment will grow with further migrations.

I understand that it is not break-fix question and it is more of consulting question. People who have knowlegde of similar kind of setup, can give me some idea.

I want suggestions from you guys, what can be best possible ways to achieve our goal. I can research in details, but I am looking for high level plan.

If this is not related to correct forum, please move it to appropriate place.

Regards
 

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IDMAP_RFC2307(8)					    System Administration tools 					  IDMAP_RFC2307(8)

NAME
idmap_rfc2307 - Samba's idmap_rfc2307 Backend for Winbind DESCRIPTION
The idmap_rfc2307 plugin provides a way for winbind to read id mappings from records in an LDAP server as defined in RFC 2307. The LDAP server can be stand-alone or the LDAP server provided by the AD server. An AD server is always required to provide the mapping between name and SID, and the LDAP server is queried for the mapping between name and uid/gid. This module implements only the "idmap" API, and is READONLY. Mappings must be provided in advance by the administrator by creating the user accounts in the Active Directory server and the posixAccount and posixGroup objects in the LDAP server. The names in the Active Directory server and in the LDAP server have to be the same. This id mapping approach allows the reuse of existing LDAP authentication servers that store records in the RFC 2307 format. IDMAP OPTIONS
range = low - high Defines the available matching UID and GID range for which the backend is authoritative. Note that the range acts as a filter. If specified any UID or GID stored in AD that fall outside the range is ignored and the corresponding map is discarded. It is intended as a way to avoid accidental UID/GID overlaps between local and remotely defined IDs. ldap_server = <ad | stand-alone > Defines the type of LDAP server to use. This can either be the LDAP server provided by the Active Directory server (ad) or a stand-alone LDAP server. bind_path_user Specifies the bind path where user objects can be found in the LDAP server. bind_path_group Specifies the bind path where group objects can be found in the LDAP server. user_cn = <yes | no> Query cn attribute instead of uid attribute for the user name in LDAP. This option is not required, the default is no. cn_realm = <yes | no> Append @realm to cn for groups (and users if user_cn is set) in LDAP. This option is not required, the default is no. ldap_domain When using the LDAP server in the Active Directory server, this allows to specify the domain where to access the Active Directory server. This allows using trust relationships while keeping all RFC 2307 records in one place. This parameter is optional, the default is to access the AD server in the current domain to query LDAP records. ldap_url When using a stand-alone LDAP server, this parameter specifies the ldap URL for accessing the LDAP server. ldap_user_dn Defines the user DN to be used for authentication. The secret for authenticating this user should be stored with net idmap secret (see net(8)). If absent, an anonymous bind will be performed. ldap_realm Defines the realm to use in the user and group names. This is only required when using cn_realm together with a stand-alone ldap server. EXAMPLES
The following example shows how to retrieve id mappings from a stand-alone LDAP server. This example also shows how to leave a small non conflicting range for local id allocation that may be used in internal backends like BUILTIN. [global] idmap config * : backend = tdb idmap config * : range = 1000000-1999999 idmap config DOMAIN : backend = rfc2307 idmap config DOMAIN : range = 2000000-2999999 idmap config DOMAIN : ldap_server = stand-alone idmap config DOMAIN : ldap_url = ldap://ldap1.example.com idmap config DOMAIN : ldap_user_dn = cn=ldapmanager,dc=example,dc=com idmap config DOMAIN : bind_path_user = ou=People,dc=example,dc=com idmap config DOMAIN : bind_path_group = ou=Group,dc=example,dc=com AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed. Samba 4.0 06/17/2014 IDMAP_RFC2307(8)
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