I’m asking because they’re might be a way for me to have a Linux laptop at work. But I’d like it to be connected to the Active Directory for login and other accesses. I’m specifically thinking of installing either Kubuntu or Zorin OS. (Zorin seems better)

Anyone got experience with this? How did it go? Was there any advantages or disadvantages in having you computer connected to AD for login?

  • lurkingllama
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    8 hours ago

    Joining a Linux machine to an AD domain is quite easy using realmd. It can use sssd/ad-cli or samba winbind as a back-end and will do all the wiring up of NSS, PAM and the like for you. You can even let it install missing distro packages for the domain join for you - or you can have it tell you what packages you’re missing and install them yourself.

    You will need to talk to your IT department (or whoever is responsible for AD) though, not least because a domain admin will have to input their credentials so that the domain join (creation of the Computer object in LDAP and generation of the Kerberos keyfile) can happen.