SSSD AD enrollment fails

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Configure-Administer
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Trying to configure SLES12 SP3 for authentication against MS AD I find
two problems:

  1. instead of installing the machine object into to default
    CN=susi,CN=Computers,DC=example,DC=com AD admins asked me to use a
    special OU for this task. With my admin account I am allowed to create
    the object in this OU only. How to I achieve this with the YaST module
    for enrollment. As far as I can tell the sssd.conf does me not give an
    option for this.
  2. YaST give an error “failed to find DC for domain” while the domain
    controllers are defined in sssd.conf and are also visible from the client.

Any hints on one of those?

Günther

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Günther,

When you are enrolling the system in the domain using the “Active Directory Enrollment” dialogue there is an option field called:

“Optional Orginisation Unit”

Specify the container to create your server computer object there.

Note when using the AD providers the domain name used in the sssd.conf file must match the FQDN of the target AD domain.

If the join still fails send add the “debug_level = 7” directive/value to the domain section in your sssd.conf and look for the issue near the end of the /var/log/sssd/sssd_domain.log file and advise me of the results.

– lawrence

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On 05/18/2018 04:14 PM, hangarbait wrote:
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When you are enrolling the system in the domain using the “Active
Directory Enrollment” dialogue there is an option field called:

“Optional Orginisation Unit”

Specify the container to create your server computer object there.[/color]

Thank you very much for the hint. I was a bit confused about what this
option is actually used for.

As for my second problem with the message “failed to find DC for
domain”: it turned out that this was caused by our Firewall rules. For
some reason the SUSE system will contact the domain controllers on
389/UDP. With rules for TCP only this will fail and the enrollment never
completes.
[color=blue]

Note when using the AD providers the domain name used in the sssd.conf
file must match the FQDN of the target AD domain.

If the join still fails send add the “debug_level = 7” directive/value
to the domain section in your sssd.conf and look for the issue near the
end of the /var/log/sssd/sssd_domain.log file and advise me of the
results.[/color]

Now the enrollment worked for one system. I want to thank you very much
for your useful advice and will post here if I need further help e.g.
with the sssd log files.

Günther

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… always happy to help Günther, I’ve also worked with you on the TTP list :slight_smile: .

– lawrence