Ubuntu 8.10 and AD users

[Stephen]

The need was still the sudoers file This however is fixed and working,
I can now access all the admin tools with anyone that is on the domain
admins group within the domain.

%DOMAIN\\domain^admins ALL=(ALL) ALL

http://www.likewisesoftware.com/community/index.php/forums/viewthread/80/

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:
> From: Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>> and to log in i do so (via likewise-open) as DOMAIN\user-name I can
>> then access the machine just fine but normal user permissions any
>> admin level tasks i want to do to the machine  i have to get creative
>> or log in as a locally managed user.
>>
>> interestingly enough i can drop to terminal and then su to root but if
>> the application i want has any X interaction it will not work.
>
> Execute "xhost +local:" as the user who's logged in to X.  Then "sudo
> bash" or whatever, "export DISPLAY=:0", and X apps as root should Just
> Work.
>
>> If i could somehow import the Users i want to give elevated access to
>> the local machine i would know what i am doing from there. but the
>> users that are authenticating from the domain are nowhere to be found.
>
> ISTR something like libpam-ldap that'd allow people to authenticate
> against an AD server.  However, I never investigated that fully as the
> auth servers were typically Linux boxes.  I may have something like that
> in my Usenet archives but won't be able to check that until after dinner.
>
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