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April 21, 2017, 9:14am
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@maz Hello again.
Chuffed your preparing to code contribute:
Linking to the pull requests that introduced sssd the last time around, prior to the winbind reversion as detailed in my post on your recent AD related forum thread:
@maz First off; welcome to the Rockstor community forum.
I’m not up much on AD stuff myself (although @Flyer is) but I can hopefully provide a few pointers. Bear in mind that I may have this wrong though but these doc pointers and history may help anyway.
Rockstor currently uses the Winbind approach I believe:
the above actually states how it used to work as then for a bit the AD system was switched to sssd which I personally was quite exited about:
this was of major interest to me and I…
Sssd was first added (by way of winbind replacement):
I finally managed to improve the Active Directory integration code. The new approach is looking much better and detailed here . So, 3.8-8.07 update is now available. I’d greatly appreciate if AD users out there give it a spin.
Here’s the issue for this work.
and the associated pull request:
rockstor:master ← schakrava:860_ad_fix
opened 10:44PM - 13 Oct 15 UTC
Later improvements / enhancements:
It’s been a bit slower development pace last few days, I spent way too much time than I wished on fixing up AD integration issues. Thanks to users for reporting issues and @JBelthoff especially for providing deeper insights into a winbind based setup. Some of you are aware, I am sure, that Rockstor uses the newer SSS based approach summarized here . I almost gave in and went back to winbind, but I was able to fill in some gaps and everything seems to be working in my environment with 2012 R2 AD s…
and the related pr:
rockstor:master ← schakrava:1024_server_role
opened 08:28PM - 05 Feb 16 UTC
And finally the revert to winbind approach announcement:
3.8-11.15 is now available! This is a special one where we fixed two issues that have been painful to many users.
AD integration has been broken in a few different ways with our sssd approach . It looks great in theory and I am open to bringing it back again, but many users ran into issues including Rockstor dropping off the domain, id mapping issues and windows ACLs. So, we are bringing back the winbind approach. We’ve tested it quite a bit and encourage everyone to do the same.
It has bee…
and the related pr:
rockstor:master ← schakrava:1122_AD
opened 11:37PM - 19 Feb 16 UTC
There may have been a number of other fixes additions related to sssd during this period but some git investigation on the related files should help there. But I think we have the major changes listed above.
Hope that helps.