Here is a more concrete example.
http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/active_directory/howto/objects/join-linux.cfm
You could use ad2yp to join linux systems to CornellAD Domain.
Any defined security group in CornellAD Domain could be used as the authorized
Linux users for your system.
Conta
Simplicity is the best answer to both.
ad2yp is probably most useful to workgroups using Linux in an Active Directory
environment that does not contain
Unix extensions but does allow subgroups in the directory structure to define
their own groups and group memberships.
For the example of a camp
A couple questions:
1) why selectively import users? Why not just have a single account store in AD?
2) SSSD?
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James Pulver
LEPP Computer Group
Cornell University
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