Hey all, sorry for the low level question, but basically I’m looking for the easiest way to set up something like a Windows AD. This would be for something like 10 computers at a local church where I do a lot of their infrastructure work. Is also be interested in sound something similar on my home network, but a while directory is probably overkill. And any suggestions on learnings or other suggestions appreciated!

  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Depends on what you’re looking for? Common logins? A way of mass applying configurations and policies or to multiple computers? Way of doing centralized shared file stores?

    There’s no true 1:1 in Linux, but there are multiple applications that can cover all of the functions. As one person said, LDAP, but that’s a protocol that can be served via multiple applications. Samba is one that offers an AD like system that would probably cover SoHo type needs. Things like openldap, 389 server and other can do pure directory/authentication but may not meet everything.

    • Jayb151@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Depends on what you’re looking for? Common logins? A way of mass applying configurations and policies or to multiple computers? Way of doing centralized shared file stores?

      I’m actually kind of looking for all of this. Everything there is currently Windows, but it’s kind of hard to upgrade everything without paying money haha. I was wondering if I could do a version of Linux because as a non-profit we have a free google workspace account. It would be nice to move away from the Windows teat(especially because we have a free productivity suite in Google Docs), but that might be a hard battle to win.

      • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I’d start by looking at Samba then. That’s probably gonna be your closest 1:1 replacement. It can even act as a domain controller for Windows systems too.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    FreeIPA, and there was another one but its an enterprise level system, can’t remember the name.

  • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    AD is basically LDAP+Kerberos, plus some tools to manage system and user configuration using LDAP.

    So for Linux it would be those two tools, and roll your own tools for config.

    Or just use Samba which handles a lot of this in the same way as AD.