[Authentication] realmd on CentOS

[Stef Walter]

On 24.02.2014 07:18, Chris Gray wrote:
> Has anyone been able to get realmd to work in CentOS 6.5? (or any
> version for that matter)
>  
> Seems to require a newer glib2 and automake than CentOS ships with.
>  
> The basic reason I'm asking is due to people in the SSSD mailing list
> telling me I should stop using msktutil and use realmd... which of
> course is easier said than done.
>  
> I did notice while searching the list for other people asking the same
> question, that you guys have an adcli program. I was able to install
> that via epel. I could use that to do the joining instead of msktutil,
> but then without realmd, how would the machine password be reset before
> it expires? It seems that until I can either figure out all the
> dependencies for realmd on centos, I'm stuck with msktutil.

realmd doesn't help reset the machine password. sssd does that in recent
versions.

realmd is just a wrapper for things like adcli, 'net join',
ipa-client-install and so on. It also sets up sssd.conf. But you can do
anything it can do with just adcli and sssd, and manual configuration.

Stef