Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 – Integrating Linux Systems with Active Directory Environments

 Many IT environments are heterogeneous. In a mixed environment, there has to be some way to join systems to a single domain or a forest, either directly as clients or by creating separate domains or forests connected to each other. Red Hat Enterprise Linux  can help a Linux system or an entire Linux forest integrate with an Active Directory environment.

The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) provides access to different identity and authentication providers. This service ties a local system to a larger back end system. That can be a simple LDAP directory, domains for Active Directory or IdM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or Kerberos realms.

realmd to connects to an Active Directory Domain. realmd simplifies the configuration. realmd can run a service discovery to identify different, available domains ( both Active Directory and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Identity Management ), and then join the domain and manage user access. realmd can discover and support multiple domains because the underlying service (SSSD) supports multiple domains.