Technical Reference

This section consolidates technical details on ADSys, including specifications, APIs, and architecture.

On the Linux side, ADSys is composed of a daemon and a command line interface:

• The daemon - adsysd - implements the Group Policy protocol. It relies on Kerberos, Samba and LDAP for authentication and policy retrieval.

• The command line interface - adsysctl - controls the daemon and reports its status.

A Windows daemon, adwatchd can be installed on the domain controller to automatically refresh assets without system administrator interventions.

Reference

• ADSys Control (adsysctl)
• ADSys Daemon (adsysd)
• ADSys Watch Daemon (adwatchd)

Command line

• adsysctl
• adsysd
• adwatchd

Supported policies

• Policies reference list
  • Computer Policies
  • User Policies

Supported releases

ADSys is supported on Ubuntu starting from 20.04.2 LTS, and tested with Windows Server 2019.

Only Active Directory on-premise is supported.

Recommended readings

• adsysd help or man adsysd.

• adsysctl help or man adsysctl.