Yes, it is.
sssd will do the first task for you and for the second you need to install IDMU (Identity mgmt for Unix) and its migration assistant to migrate your maps into AD. Just note you will need Windows server 2003 R2 or newer for this (older AD schema is incompatible w/ sssd).
Ondrej

On 10/16/2012 12:21 PM, Longina Przybyszewska wrote:
Hi list,
I am going to set up proof-of -concept installation of Ubuntu (Precise) client/server using sssd to authenticate/authorize
against Active Directory.
At this moment everything seems to be a challenge - as I am exclusive (ok ;-) almost exclusive... ) hard core Linux user.

As our Windows team is not ready with AD schema for Unix - my first exercise could be 
-get login/ssh authenticate (and change passwd)  against AD
-get uid/gid/auto.home map/shell from existing Linux NIS server

Is my plan realistic  ?


Best regards

Longina Przybyszewska
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-----Original Message-----
From: sssd-users-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:sssd-users-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Jakub Hrozek
Sent: 12. oktober 2012 22:40
To: sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org; sssd-users@lists.fedorahosted.org; freeipa-interest@redhat.com
Subject: [SSSD-users] Announcing SSSD 1.9.2

                    === SSSD 1.9.2 ===

The SSSD team is proud to announce the release of version 1.9.2 of the System Security Services Daemon.

This is mostly a bugfix release again. I am going to branch off the 1.9 branch from master so that we can start including the 1.10 features in master.

As always, the source is available from https://fedorahosted.org/sssd

RPM packages will be made available for Fedora shortly, initially for F-18 and rawhide and later also backported to F-17.

== Feedback ==

Please provide comments, bugs and other feedback via the sssd-devel or sssd-users mailing lists:
    https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel
    https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-users

== Highlights ==
    * Users or groups from trusted domains can be retrieved by UID or GID as well
    * Several fixes that mitigate file descriptor leak during logins
    * SSH host keys are also removed from the cache after being removed
      from the server
    * Fix intermittent crash in responders if the responder was shutting
      down while requests were still pending
    * Catch an error condition that might have caused a tight loop in the
      sssd_nss process while refreshing expired enumeration request
    * Fixed memory hierarchy of subdomains discovery requests that caused
      use-after-free access bugs
    * The krb5_child and ldap_child processes can print libkrb5 tracing
      information in the debug logs

== Tickets Fixed ==

https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1008
    Make sssd api conf file location configurable
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1319
    group lookups optimizations for IPA
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1499
    Add details about TGT validation to sssd-krb5 man page
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1512
    [sssd[krb5_child[PID]]]: Credential cache directory /run/user/UID/ccdir does not exist
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1514
    [abrt] sssd-1.8.4-13.fc16: __GI_exit: Process /usr/libexec/sssd/sssd_pam was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1539
    Collect Krb5 Trace on High Debug Levels
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1551
    sssd_nss process hangs, stuck in loop; "self restart" does recover, but old process hangs around using 100% CPU
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1561
    getting user/group entry by uid/gid sometimes fails
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1569
    Use pam_set_data to close the fd in the pam module
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1571
    sssd_nss intermittent crash
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1574
    SSH host keys are not being removed from the cache

== Packaging Changes ==

    * The libsss_sudo-devel package no longer contains the package-config
      file. The libsss_sudo-devel shared object has been moved to the
      libsss_sudo package.

== Detailed Changelog ==

E Deon Lackey (1):
    * Fix language errors in the sssd-krb5.conf man page 

Jakub Hrozek (14):
    * Bumping the version to 1.9.1 release
    * Fix uninitialized pointer read in ssh_host_pubkeys_update_known_hosts
    * Fix segfault when ID-mapping an entry without a SID
    * Fix memory hierarchy in subdomains discovery
    * PAM: close socket fd with pam_set_data
    * Couple of specfile fixes
    * Remove libsss_sudo.pc and move libsss_sudo.so to libsss_sudo
    * Two fixes to child processes
    * Collect krb5 trace on high debug levels
    * PAM: fix handling the client fd in pam destructor
    * Create ghost users when a user DN is encountered in IPA
    * Only call krb5_set_trace_callback on platforms that support it
    * MAN: improve wording of default_domain parameter
    * Updating the translations for the 1.9.2 release 

Jan Cholasta (1):
    * SSH: When host keys are removed from LDAP, remove them from the
      cache as well

Ondrej Kos (1):
    * Add more info about ticket validation 

Pavel Březina (3):
    * do not fail if POLLHUP occurs while reading data
    * do not call dp callbacks when responder is shutting down
    * nss_cmd_retpwent(): do not go into infinite loop if n < 0 

Sumit Bose (3):
    * Save time of last get_domains request
    * Check for subdomains if getpwuid or getgrgid are the first requests
    * Allow extdom exop to return flat domain name as well 

Thorsten Scherf (1):
    * Fixed: translation bug 

Yuri Chornoivan (1):
    * Fix typos 

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