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NAME

ad - Active Directory as a naming repository

DESCRIPTION

Solaris clients can obtain naming information from Active Directory (AD)
servers.


The Solaris system must first join an AD domain and then add the ad
keyword to the appropriate entries in the nsswitch.conf(5) file. The
Solaris system joins the AD domain by using the kclient(8) utility. The
AD name service only supports the naming databases for passwd and group.


Windows users are not able to log in. The user_attr(5) database has no
entries for Windows users, and the passwd(1) command does not support the
synchronization of user passwords with AD.


The Solaris AD client uses auto-discovery techniques to find AD directory
servers, such as domain controllers and global catalog servers. The
client also uses the LDAP v3 protocol to access naming information from
AD servers. The AD server schema requires no modification because the AD
client works with native AD schema. The Solaris AD client uses the
idmap(8) service to map between Windows security identifiers (SIDs) and
Solaris user identifiers (UIDs) and group identifiers (GIDs). User names
and group names are taken from the sAMAccountName attribute of the AD
user and group objects and then tagged with the domain where the objects
reside. The domain name is separated from the user name or group name by
the @ character.


The client uses the SASL/GSSAPI/KRB5 security model. The kclient utility
is used to join the client to AD. During the join operation, kclient
configures Kerberos v5 on the client. See kclient(8).

FILES

/etc/nsswitch.conf
Configuration file for the name-service switch.


/etc/nsswitch.ad
Sample configuration file for the name-service
switch configured with ad, dns and files.


/usr/lib/nss_ad.so.1
Name service switch module for AD.

SEE ALSO

passwd(1), svcs(1), nsswitch.conf(5), user_attr(5), smf(7), idmap(8),
idmapd(8), kclient(8), svcadm(8), svccfg(8)

May 23, 2021 AD(7)