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Active Directory

Kerberos Realm and Settings

The AD domain (ie the Kerberos realm) is D.PSI.CH, not PSI.CH. The maximum lifetime of a ticket is about a day, and a ticket can be renewed for about a week.

Domain Controllers

In most networks d.psi.ch resolves to the correct names/IPs. One exception is the DMZ.

The domain controllers that are used internally are:

  • dc00
  • dc01
  • dc02

In the DMZ we need to use these instead:

  • rodc00
  • rodc01

It is important to note that the SSL certificates for the internal DCs are not signed for dc0n.psi.ch, but dc0n.d.psi.ch (note the extra d). In certain contexts (eg in sssd.conf(5)) specifying the DCs as dc0n.psi.ch fails because of this.

Linux Computer Objects

Computer objects for Linux systems are created in OU=linux,OU=computers,OU=psi,DC=d,DC=psi,DC=ch. We do not distinguish between servers and workstations in AD (unlike the Windows team), as the distinction isn't clear and it wouldn't help us anyway (as we don't use AD group policies).

We perform the join password-less, by pre-creating the computer object using a script running on the Puppet master.