100% correct. We are OK with losing GSSAPI authentication if we can
operate in a different DNS domain than
the IPA server that "glues" together all of our various Active Directory
trusts. We want password authentication
from Active Directory as our main concern with role-based access control
coming in as a strong second desire.
The Redhat/IPA documentation and links that Alexander posted below on
this are quite good and the issues on our end have generally come
from following more generic deployment instructions that don't cover the
different-DNS-domain situation.
The quality of technical insight on this list has been fantastic. If our
"different DNS" setup is of interest to
others I'd be happy to write up our architecture and configurations in
more detail once this project settles
down. At the very least I should be able to prepare a concise "lessons
learned" summary that details the
configuration settings that deviate from the norms advised in the more
general-purpose instructions.
Regards,
Chris
Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
Apologies I must have been unclear. What I was trying to say is that
we are going for the "hosts in the different DNS domain" deployment
scenario ...
- We have unique domain name and realm for IPA: company-ipa.org
- We use company-aws.org in AWS and have our own Active Directory
servers for: company-aws.org
- We want to use ipa-client to bind our servers to company-ipa.org
but use DNS names from company-aws.org for operation
Our end goal:
- We have many external AD forests we are linking to company-ipa.org
one at a time
- End goal: operate hosts with DNS name "company-aws.org" as IPA
clients of "company-ipa.org" using AD logins coming from the external
trusts
This setup should work with password-based authentication. It will not
work with GSSAPI (Kerberos) authentication. I think this is what you are
aware of and accepted as the limitation.
For the benefit of others, here is the list of articles and
documentation of the topic of mixed DNS domains/hostnames with Active
Directory:
- High-level description:
http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2016/07/13/i-really-cant-rename-my-hosts/
- Documentation chapter:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html-single/Windows_Integration_Guide/index.html#ipa-in-ad-dns
- Technical details:
http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/IPA_Client_in_Active_Directory_DNS_domain
There is nothing we can do with the Active Directory limitations beyond
these documents.
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