Hi there!
A bunch of us at work have been looking at getting Intune running on our Linux machines, this is needed to get Wi-Fi access at work. While there is a guide on getting this on Linux - the requirements are strictly limiting this to RedHat and Ubuntu and Gnome only. Has anyone here had any success with setting this up? Was it difficult?
I tried myself just once last week, but on Aurora (KDE), via a RHEL distrobox, and assumed it failed due to my main system not having gnome-keyring installed(?) as the terminal would spit out “gnome-keyring” a couple of times when launching Intune. Was gonna try with RHEL myself during this week, but wanted to hear here first if anyone has had any success with this at all before i attempt to get it running.
Appreciate any response on this :)
Source for getting Intue on Linux. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/user-help/microsoft-intune-app-linux
I got it running on Kubuntu 24.04 by adding older repos for the dependencies and installing seahorse for the keyring.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing :)
If you want to go this route - make sure there’s a default keyring in seahorse, and you set a password for it :)
I tried with a debian testing and couldn’t get intune UI to communicate with intune backend, I think (thanks to the cryptic error messages)
I installed a fresh ubuntu 22 LTS, as per the doc, and could get past this point, only to encounter the conditional access restriction policy from my company.
What would having Intune offer you personally? Are you a smart Linux user or barely know enough to be dangerous?
Go to your IT department or management and tell them you want to use Linux for work if that is what you want, and if they say no then make up your mind if you’re willing to become a braindead zombie for the company, or if you’d rather be doing something actually useful and meaningful with your time.
Intune is the only way for us to get Wi-Fi certificates, that’s why it’s needed. On windows it’s baked in or whatever, but obviously not on Linux.
You can use Wi-Fi certificates on Linux without needing Intune. Is the real issue here that your workplace doesn’t want to give you the info you need to use Linux?
As far as I was told at least, they use Intune to distribute these, don’t think they want to “hand them out manually”.
Yeah, they do not officially support us using Linux. However, I would like to see whether Intune can be easily installed on Linux machines so that I can create documentation for those employees who wish to use Linux over Windows/Mac.
Well, first they are lying to you. You don’t have to hand out certificates manually and that isn’t how Intune does it either. They are provisioned using SCEP generally, which has its own security drawbacks. You can get these certificates from a SCEP server using a tool like Certmonger.
Most companies that say they don’t officially support Linux already have you sign an acceptable-use agreement to only use company-provided hardware and approved software. And while they may act like they’ll make a special exception for you, you better make sure you got it in writing and in a way that would comply with your other employment agreements. One thing most IT employees don’t have the privilege of is negotiating the legal terms of their employment. There are already multiple US cases of employees being criminalized for breaking their employer’s AUP.
I wish you the best of luck, but feel like you’re prob in for a harsh reality.
Thanks for the insight though! Feel like it’s a lot better trying than not to. Worst come to worst I continue using my mobile Hotspot which they pay for.
Wait, breaking employer’s AUP? More detail plz when you have time.
