It’s safe to say that most companies are running Windows Active Directory as their centralized authentication server which handles user accounts and group management. It seems like some folks create a strong divide between Linux and Windows, however, this guide shows how to quickly integrate the two together.

Shoutouts:

LinuxTechi article by Pradeep Kumar
RedHat Documentation

Packages

yum install sssd realmd oddjob oddjob-mkhomedir adcli samba-common samba-common-tools krb5-workstation openldap-clients policycoreutils-python

Join Linux machine to AD

realm join --user=scott ad.example.com

Edit /etc/sssd/sssd.conf

Change the “use_fully_qualifies_names” and “fallback_homedir” to look like:

use_fully_qualified_names = False
fallback_homedir = /home/%u

Restart sssd service

systemctl restart sssd
systemctl daemon-reload

Start using!

id scott
uid=591001105(scott) gid=591000513(domain users) groups=591000513(domain users),591001108(server admins)

ssh scott@linux.example.com
[scott@linux ~]$