gmsad 0.1.0

Linux service to manage gMSA accounts

gmsad

gmsad manages Active Directory group Managed Service Account (gMSA) on Linux.

Given the keytab of an account which has the ability to retrieve the secret of a gMSA, gmsad creates a keytab for the service account and renew it when necessary. It can execute an arbitrary command just after renewing the keytab.

Requirements

Your Active Directory domain must be able to use group Managed Service Account which implies :

• AD schema updated to Windows Server 2012 (Getting Started with Group Managed Service Accounts)
• KDS Root Key deployed (Create the Key Distribution Services KDS Root Key)

In addition, gmsad requires a working LDAPS interface on domain controllers with a valid TLS certificate.

Documentation

• Getting started with gmsad
• Why was this tool created ?
• How does a gMSA work ?
• Talk at SSTIC 2023 (in french)

Contributing

Any contribution is welcome, be it code, bug report, packaging, documentation or translation.

License

gmsad is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

gmsad is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with gmsad. If not, see the gnu.org web site.