I use FreeIPA and it works just fine for everything I would need AD for. Your point still stands. I just mean there are good enough alternatives for the Linux environment.
There are definitely ways of configuring Linux systems. For many organizations Ansible or Puppet works completely fine. However, they require a significant amount of knowledge and aren’t completely standardized. Group policy on Windows has been around for a long time and will be much easier to deploy, at least in the short term.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I actually enjoy playing with Windows and Active Directory. I think it is ahead in terms of management and needing hacky workarounds
Vilian@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
there isn’t active directory for linux?, actually what active directory do diferently?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
You absolutely can join Linux machines to AD. You just don’t have the same power that group policy gives you.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
what group policy gives that unix filesystem permissions don’t?, i really don’t know, and i don’t have a windows machine to test :b
denshirenji@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I use FreeIPA and it works just fine for everything I would need AD for. Your point still stands. I just mean there are good enough alternatives for the Linux environment.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
There are definitely ways of configuring Linux systems. For many organizations Ansible or Puppet works completely fine. However, they require a significant amount of knowledge and aren’t completely standardized. Group policy on Windows has been around for a long time and will be much easier to deploy, at least in the short term.