Kerberos

How to quickly and easily add a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 system to Microsoft Active Directory

UPDATE!! .. This article also works perfectly on Windows 2012 Server as well as Windows Server 2008. The process is exactly the same.

 

I’ve had countless numbers of people ask me over the years how to add a Linux system to Active Directory.

Here is a really quick and simple way to do it using Windbind for userlookups, and Kerberos for authentication.

In this example, I will be using the below details

Windows Domain Name:         nt.example.com
Windows Domain NetBIOS Name: NT
Domain Controller:           dc01.nt.example.com
Client Server name:          server01.nt.example.com

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Configuring Dovecot to authenticate FreeIPA users using Kerberos (with Single Sign On)

I have also posted this article on the FreeIPA.org project wiki which is linkedĀ here

The below details will walk you through how to add a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 system to an IPA domain, and then configure Dovecot to allow single sign on to user mailboxes with IMAP/S.

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