Welcome to the last of a three part series about Ubuntu and Active Directory. In my previous posts I explained how you could, in just a few steps, join an Ubuntu machine to an Active Directory domain and manage it accordingly. This time I’m addressing centralized management of sudo users. Meaning who can execute commands as sudo on managed Linux desktops (in my case Ubuntu).
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In the previous blog post I wrote about how to join a Ubuntu 22.04 machine to a Microsoft Active Directory domain. In this follow up post I want to dive a little deeper into the configuration files, a bug I ran into during testing and setting some advanced security settings for access management. The latter is crazy easy actually, keep on reading.
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Sometimes you’ll be needing a setup that includes both Windows and Linux based machines for managing the infrastructure and data processing. Although joining a Windows machine to an Active Directory domain is fairly simple, joining a Linux based systems requires a little more effort. This posts focusses on joining Ubuntu based nodes (Desktop or Server systems) to a Windows Active Directory domain for simplified management and a unified logon experience.
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I’ve been in this industry for 30 somewhat years and luckily every now and than I still learn something new. As I stepped into this world of blogging, I decided to try out static websites instead of simply using WordPress. Must admit I had a little too much fun discovering how all this stuff actually works, diving into Git CI/CD pipelines, learning the markdown language, setting up an Azure static website and combining it all. No worries, over time I will share all I can, but for today I’m going to concentrate on name resolution, a.k.a. DNS.
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I’m one of those people that tries to use the best tools to do the job at hand. Linux or Windows, both are great in their own respect, both have strengths, both have downsides. This post isn’t about comparing both operating systems, plenty of opinions around for that. Today I want to share the first tip for Linux as I have used it as my daily driver for a couple of years now.
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A common phrase often heard is, “Never meet your heroes, it’s never what you expect it to be”. But that’s exactly what I did on the 19th of September 2022.
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