Linux

sorry I don't have any real documentation but I have a snippet of powershell that explains it pretty well here this comes from a user creation script I wrote back when they removed the unix UI.

I was using Get-AdUser and discovered that the properties still existed but you have to manually shove those in, when an sssd "domain bound" linux machine has a user with these props login, they get the defined UID and GID and homefolder etc.

$otherAttributes = @{}
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Adding Linux Attributes"

# get the next numeric uid number from AD
$uidNumber=((get-aduser -Filter * -Properties * | where-object {$_.uidNumber} | select uidNumber | sort uidNumber | select -Last 1).uidNumber)+1

$otherAttributes.Add("unixHomeDirectory","/homefolder/path/$($samAccountName)")
$otherAttributes.Add("uid","$($samAccountName)")
$otherAttributes.Add("gidNumber","$($gidNumber)")
$otherAttributes.Add("uidNumber","$($uidNumber)")
$otherAttributes.Add("loginShell","$($loginShell)")

$UserArgs = @{
    Credential = $creds
    Enabled = $true
    ChangePasswordAtLogon = $true
    Path = $usersOU
    HomeDirectory = "$homeDirPath\$samAccountName"
    HomeDrive = $homeDriveLetter
    GivenName = $firstName
    Surname = $lastName
    DisplayName = $displayName
    SamAccountName = $samAccountName
    Name = $displayName
    AccountPassword = $securePW
    UserPrincipalName = "$($aliasName)@DOMAIN.COM"
    OtherAttributes = $otherAttributes
}

$newUser = New-ADUser @UserArgs

basically the "OtherAttributes" on the ADUser object is a hashtable that holds all the special additional LDAP attributes, so in this example we use $otherAttributes to add all the fields we need, you can do the same with "Set-Aduser" if you just wanna edit an existing user and add these props

the @thing on New-ADuser is called a splat, very useful if you're not familiar, it turns a hashtable into arguments

lemme know if you have any questions

But is it distro acrostic?

You cannot give people arbitrary permissions. People are often incompetent. But you dont need to rely on big brother to have control?

No, a Linux desktop is free from single corporation control, is compliant in its privacy settings and often works way better (like KDE) than Windows or MacOS.