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Microsoft LAPS

Microsoft LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution) solves the issue of the password management with those local user accounts across your Active Directory domain but randomizing and expiring those local password. In this post I’ll go over how to install and setup LAPS. Prerequisites Download: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3062591/microsoft-security-advisory-local-administrator-password-solution-laps Should not be installed on a domain controller (will change the […]

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Adding AD Authentication to Linux

We have a number of Linux servers that we manage for various reason and wanted to integrate Single Sign-on with our Active Directory domain accounts for user login for better security and ease of user management. This has been tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. As a prerequisite, create a security group in Active Directory that […]

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Nagios Web Interface AD Authentication

By default Nagios Core’s web interface only authenticates locally using a .htpasswd file. Each user would have to be manually added to this file along with a few other places within the Nagios configuration files to be able to login and view host/service statuses. When editing a file with Nano, to save your changes to do the […]

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