[Gllug] Samba - Add Active Directory User to UNIX Group?

[James]

Bruce Richardson wrote:
>
> Winbind will solve this for you: samba, winbind, pam.  If you install
> samba, make the server part of the domain and use winbind to give domain
> users and groups local uids and gids, then the Linux box will be able to
> resolve Doman User/Group names into uids.  It's then perfectly possible
> to add domain users to local unix groups or have sudo rules that enable
> members of domain groups to do actions X, Y and Z.
>
> Pam is needed for local/ssh login, for password changes and for
> automatically creating home directories when domain users connect.
>
> In the office at work, we have user management in Active Directory
> (legacy decision) but all the development environment is Linux.  On our
> build servers, if I type 'getent group', it lists all the domain groups
> as well as the local ones, 'getent passwd' gives domain and local
> usernames etc.
>
>   

This is exactly how I have our server setup, there are no other servers 
to worry about it is just a small office.

Typing getent passwd lists domain and local usernames on my server also, 
so how can I add a Domain User to a Linux group?
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