UID/GID allocating – is my missing link.

We need to renumber at least UIDs as they overlap across NIS domains.

As all users have in advance AD account it seems obvious to me to generate posix uid based on AD IDs.

 

…Or just assign Linux UIDs numbers  during migrating.

What about making new accounts in the future – how the uid would be generated for Linux Users?

Do we need a special group say ‘linuxusers’  then make a new template for new account in the group?

Can AD make for us also continuously unique POSIX  UIDs when creating the new account?

I don’t know YET much about MSWin identification process – sorry for very basic questions ;).

 

I understand that the approach with RID (real ID ??) mapping achieves consistent name mapping across all types file servers –

am I right?

But maybe in sssd context it doesn’t make sense – as Ondrej points out. 

 

Ondrej, if you say “sssd can serve automount maps for automounter” – that means sssd can read ldap automounter map, and do

it automatically if we define  autofs service in [nss] but first automounter has to know about sssd and link to sssd libraries?

 

Alternative,  now we have to convert NIS auto.home maps to ldap format, and load them to AD (???), then reconfigure automounter to

ask AD for entry instead of NIS.

By the way how do I find what class/attributes I want in AD-ldap for autofs?

 

Longina

From: sssd-users-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:sssd-users-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Ondrej Valousek
Sent: 14. februar 2013 09:22
To: End-user discussions about the System Security Services Daemon
Subject: Re: [SSSD-users] migrating from NIS to AD+kerberos

 

Few comments:
- Uid/gid renumbering is a pain that should be avoided.
- I prefer using RFC2307 attributes rather than relying on some fancy RID mapping. I like to have things under my control.
- sssd can serve automount maps for automounter - it is not mature yet, but will be (hopefully). Mean time, automounter can talk to AD on its own, so it is not a big deal to get rid of NIS right now.

Ondrej

On 02/14/2013 08:40 AM, Greg.Lehmann@csiro.au wrote:

We started on this path several years ago when an IT consolidation happened across all the divisions which had previously done their own thing in IT. We had multiple NIS domains and recognised it was getting a bit old as a technology. The main project driver was file server consolidation, and the NIS part of the project was not funded initially. Because the NIS domains had historically grown independently we had overlapping user name space as well as overlaps in uid and gid. The first part of the work consisted of making those 3 spaces unique as it was a pre-requisite for file server consolidation. I don't think we had overlap in group names, but it was a while ago now.
 
We decided on an HR identifier as the userid as it was unique and it was already being used on Windows (which had come along well after Unix) and was already set up as a single domain across the entire organisation. In the uid and gid space we decided on renumbering all existing users and groups to a range above all those currently in use, and chose above 2^32.
 
Userids were renamed first. Unix groups were added into AD as security groups. The numbering scheme was a formula based on the Windows SID for both group and user. All files on fileservers were renumbered before fileserver consolidation. We were not really happy with any of the existing replacements for NIS around 6 years ago so did some NIS consolidation as required. We did not populate AD with uidNumber or gidNumber at that time, but did experiment a bit with it on a few users and groups with vanilla ldap. NIS servers were setup to nightly look up a global passwd and group file which was generated from Windows AD using the formula based uids and gids. Account changes in AD would then be reflected as updates in NIS. This was of course batch only. This was made hourly eventually to handle group membership changes which could happen through the day. HR processes generally happened only nightly.
 
A few years later we updated our HR processes to populate and maintain the extra AD attributes, like uidNumber, gidNumber, shell, unixhomedir, gecos. Just recently we have added some extra processes to manage the gidNumber, so now have all the pieces in place to use AD as our single source of information.
 
sssd will now likely be the final piece that lets us get rid of NIS. It will probably be a gradual shift as older Linux hosts drop off and new ones replace them. We will be running both schemes for a while in parallel and since they have the same information it won't be a problem.
 
The one thing we have yet to really address is automount maps and I suspect we will have to turn on NIS in AD to get that part to work properly, or use something like puppet to manage flat file versions of automount maps.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Greg
 
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Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2013 9:28 PM
To: End-user discussions about the System Security Services Daemon
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Subject: [SSSD-users] migrating from NIS to AD+kerberos
 
 
 
As a continuation of sssd evaluatin we  plan migration  from NIS  to
Active Directory+Kerberos.
 
Now again the question - what is the best approach and practice to
migrate users ?
 
AD administrators enabled SFU, and we got extended schema with POSIX
attributes.
I guess there might be some free or commercial tools for extracting
data from NIS and loading into AD -ldap objects.
 
Our Linux users are dispersed in separated NIS domains, and all have
AD account beside the entry in NIS.
 Home directories are  NFS-mounted   with autofs  from Linux storage
server but some users access  MSWin storage with smbclient.
 
Can you share experiences on assigning POSTFIX attributes in SSSD
context,  best practice etc..?
We would not like activate NIS services on AD server for migration.
 
Longina
 
 
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