[Freeipa-users] AD permissions needed for setting up AD trusts

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2013, David Juran wrote:
>On fre, 2013-01-04 at 19:04 +0100, Ana Krivokapic wrote:
>> On 01/03/2013 12:28 PM, Petr Spacek wrote:
>> > On 12/21/2012 01:19 PM, Sumit Bose wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:30:33PM +0100, James Findley wrote:
>> >>> Hi
>> >>>
>> >>> What permission level is needed for the AD user when creating an AD
>> >>> trust?  Can a regular domain user account do it, or is a domain
>> >>> admin needed?
>> >>
>> >> The account used here must be a member of the Domain Admins group.
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> If write access to the AD server is needed, then could someone
>> >>> please tell me what the command will actually change in the AD server?
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> 'ipa trust-add' will only use LSA calls on the AD server. The most
>> >> important one is CreateTrustedDomainEx2
>> >> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc234380.aspx) to create the
>> >> trust between the two domains. Additionally QueryTrustedDomainInfoByName
>> >> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc234376.aspx) to check if the
>> >> trust is already added and SetInformationTrustedDomain
>> >> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc234385.aspx) to tell the AD
>> >> server that the IPA server can handled AES encryption are used.
>> >
>> > Should we add this information to AD trusts documentation?
>> >
>> >>> The windows team at my place of work will want to know exactly what
>> >>> the tool will do before they grant permission.
>> >
>> I have added this information to the AD trusts wiki page:
>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/IPAv3_AD_trust_setup#Add_trust_with_AD_domain
>
>That link only gets me to an empty wiki page...
It is moved to HOWTOs:
http://www.freeipa.org/page/Howto/IPAv3_AD_trust_setup#Add_trust_with_AD_domain

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/ Alexander Bokovoy