Part III. Migrating an existing environment from synchronization to trust in the context of integrating a Linux domain with an Active Directory domain


In RHEL 7, synchronization and trust were two possible approaches to indirect integration of RHEL systems to Active Directory (AD). In RHEL 8, synchronization is deprecated. If you have configured synchronisation between RHEL Identity Management (IdM) and AD in RHEL 7, Red Hat recommends migrating to the approach based on an IdM-AD trust instead.

This chapter describes how to migrate an existing synchronization-based setup to AD trust. The following migrating options are available in IdM:

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