CentOS magic to Active Directory login?

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> Disclaimer: We sell Centrify, but I'm not a salesman. I spent ages
> looking for a solution that I didn't spend hours of every work week
> dealing with frustrating issues on, or days of my life configuring and
> testing to get to work. I discovered Centrify, and now that's all we
> support for our customers. We'll let them use either Winbind or LDAP,
> but their on their own with it. Centrify just works.

Wow, for something that "just works," you wrote an awful lot of explanation
after it.  ;-)  Don't take that too serious, I'm just poking fun.

I've done this with likewise on ubuntu.  Here are all my installation notes:

http://www.likewise.com/community/index.php/download/

Make the file executable.  Run it as root.
It will tell you how to join the domain.  Do it.

/opt/likewise/bin/domainjoin-cli join domainName ADjoinAccount
    Username must be in the form DOMAIN\username
    On the command line, you must use the escape char:  DOMAIN\\username

Edit your /etc/likewise/lsassd.conf
    login-shell-template = /bin/bash
    homedir-template = %H/%U
    (repeat for 2 separate lines that say homedir-template)
    assume-default-domain = yes

Reboot