Description of problem: Integration into existing Windows networks would be easier if we had a way to create a computer account as part of the installation process. Right now this needs to be done manually after the installation, using Samba's net command. An interactive option at installation time or a kickstart option would be ideal. The problem with the latter is that AD requires a valid Kerberos ticket, which in turn means having someone entering a password so that their credentials can be then passed around. This is not impossible to achieve (if the user can get forwardable tickets); it mostly requires a mechanism to be established for this kind of things. One option would be to pass the user ticket through the kickstart server onto the machine being installed; another would be for the account to be created by the kickstart server, which would then pass the computer credentials. In either case, there would need to be a way to keep the process secure. The above could be scripted somehow in the post-installation stage, but I have the feeling that solving the problem once for all would be more effective than having everyone reinvent the wheel again and again - poorly or at least in a half-baked fashion.
authconfig needs to be able to handle this before anaconda can even think about it. We use authconfig pretty much everywhere for setting this stuff up.
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This package has changed maintainer in the Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
Authconfig has been replaced by authselect and it is no longer present in Fedora since Fedora 28.