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Bind fw rules to user - Recommendation for AD-Sync?

Hi there,

i'm securing our company network a little bit more and want to use the "Match User"-Feature within the fw rules.

We're running a central Sophos XG135 cluster an a bunch of branch offices, which are connected via pfSense and IPSec-tunnels. Our clients use Sophos Intercept X as AV-solution and Sophos Connect for SSLVPN.

Actually, the Sophos FW uses two MS ActiveDirectory-Authenticationservers - we've two MS DC's for our internal domain; a colleague told me, that he has to setup two authentication servers, because he can't add on Auth-Services witch points to two DC's.

Because you can't add a second Auth-Server with the same Windows Domain name, he used "domain.tld" in the one, and "domain.local" in the other. Technically, it works without any problems - but some users are created on the sophos with "username@domain.tld", and some with "username.domain.local" - depending, which domain controller was contacted as the user has first logged in to sophos.

With this info in mind, i've searched a little bit for sophos howtos to connect a sophos fw to Active Directory. With multiple MS DC's, i should use STAS instead of entrys under Authentication -> Servers -> ActiveDirectory.

I think, that i heard, that STAS is deprecated - so i want to ask in the community:

- What is the actual/recommended way to connect a sohpos xg to a Microsoft AD?
- How to i resolve my issue with the different named user accounts? As i understand the howtos, i could "Purge AD Users". But there are Sophos-MFA linked to these accounts. And if i understand it right, the Users are not active synced from the AD to sophos; the users had to login to the User Portal - and in this moment, they were created on the sophos, if the authentication was successfully. So i guess, if i purge the users, alle users can't connect via SSLVPN till they once log in to the user portal. Is that correct?

Thanks in advance,

Bastian



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