Adventures in Eco-Linux - Part 01 - Again

Well, here someplace that I didn't expect to be (again), I am again looking at the how to do Active Directory in linux. Yet this time I discovered that samba v4 can become an Active Directory controller that's compatible with Windows Active Directory. So obviously I needed to try and set one up.

My first impression is that its a pain to setup. But it does have the familiar layout and ACLs that I'm used to. This meant that once i got the controller setup, I knew how i would organize the computers and server, since I could just copy/paste the infrastructure i have in the original domain. 

Along with that, well setting up a test client, I was thinking about how I could automate the domain joining of a client linux via ansible, which would simplify the Joining to a "semi" automatic join, and make the whole system "toot-sweet". That makes the Samba Active Directory a very alluring solution to my problem.

Though this time, I need to actually test the rest of the solutions, or at least FreeIPA, before committing to a solution. Likely, I'll test, commit, and then find another "better" solution that I should change to, cause that's how tech hobbies work. Right?