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Logging in as an enterprise user

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Logging in as an enterprise user

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- Previously, we showed how to log into a system as an individual user and working locally at that system. Now I want to show how to connect to a domain, connect in an enterprise setting as a user in Linux. So in this lab we're going to show how to connect a Linux system to a Free IPA domain. Free IPA is an open source software for directory services. It's very similar to Microsoft Active Directory, but it's designed to run on Linux and we'll add a Free IPA domain user into our client system and log in as that new user. So this lab gets a little bit more in depth and I'm just going to do this step-by-step. You can follow along and if you're interested in more about directory services, then check out my "Building Linux Servers" video. So let's get into this now. I'm going to jump over to my Fedora client. This is FedorawWorkstation and it also uses the GNOME desktop. So it looks very similar to my Debian client, but on the bottom you can see it is Fedora. So I'm going to connect as…

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