[Authentication] Why does realmd use adcli and samba (net) to join a domain?

[Stef Walter]

On 14.09.2015 19:13, John Klimek wrote:
> I'm trying to learn about Active Directory and integration with Linux
> using realmd, but when I use "realmd join", it uses sssd, but it

sssd doesn't support joining a domain. It wants another piece of
software to perform that task.

> executes the following commands:
> 
> /usr/sbin/adcli join ...
> /usr/bin/net ... ads join ...
> 
> It looks like it's using adcli AND samba to join the domain (twice) ?

Depending on configuration, it executes either of those, to actually
make the join happen.

> Can anybody help me understand?

man realm(8) ... in the section --membership-software=xxx

More here:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/realmd/docs/

Stef