Exacq exacqVision Server/Client OS: Linux Active Directory User Manual - Manual

Ubuntu Linux Server & Client and Active Directory
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Introduction
For an organization using Active Directory (AD) for user management of information technology services, integrating
exacqVision into the AD infrastructure can greatly simplify continuing maintenance of user access to your video
management system (VMS). On each exacqVision Server, you can assign VMS permissions to one or more AD groups.
Then, as you add user accounts to those groups through standard IT user management practices, those users will
automatically have access to log in to the exacqVision Servers with appropriate permissions. User management directly
through exacqVision becomes a one-time configuration requiring that you join the server to the domain and assign
permissions and privileges to groups, and all additional user management occurs through AD.
To provide the ongoing benefits of using group-based permissions with exacqVision Server, the server must do more
than simply authenticate login credentials of a user requesting access; it must be able to browse AD groups to present
them as configuration options and to determine whether a user requesting access is a member of any configured
groups.
Minimum Requirements
 Your exacqVision Server must have an Enterprise license to interact with AD.
 The domain controller must be running on Windows Server 2003 or later.
 To configure AD on an exacqVision Server, you must have AD credentials with access to a minimum of the
following AD parameters:
 objectClass (specifically "group" & "user")
 userPrincipalName
 sAMAccountName
 inetOrgPerson
 krbPrincipalName