Category: Active Directory

How to Configure a User Account in Active Directory So that the Password Never Expires

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Using ADSI Edit, navigate to the user in question.  Right-click on the user and select Properties.

Then, scroll down to the ‘userAccountControl’ property and click the Edit button.

Enter 66048 into the field and then click ‘OK’ and then ‘Apply’.

After closing the edit window, scroll to the right to confirm that the value indicates the following

'0x10200 = (NORMAL_ACCOUNT|DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWORD)'
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How to Configure a Linux Client for Active Directory Authentication

Posted on by rchapin

I am currently working on setting up multiple environments for a new project (DEV, QA, and PROD) and will be integrating all of the servers to an Active Directory Domain Controller for user management.

Following are notes from when I configured a Fedora Core 18 laptop to integrate with an AD server.  It is likely things have changed some from then and I will update this as required for a current version of RHEL7/CentOS 7.

Install the following packages

yum
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