Patent attributes
Active Directory (AD) configuration file management described herein provides technical solutions for technical problems facing management of Linux/Unix and other Unix-like open source operating systems that use configuration files to manage systems, resources, and settings. This configuration file management may use a network-internal AD Group Policy Object (GPO) to manage these configuration files, where the configuration file management may convert the configuration files into GPOs for deployment via the AD. The use of GPO-based configuration files via AD provides the ability to manage external Linux/Unix systems. When the configuration file management agent detects a change, the configuration file is replaced with a known good configuration file based on the criterion GPO or criterion configuration file. This provides persistence of the configuration GPO and the corresponding Linux/Unix system configuration, such as to implement and enforce information security.
