[KLUG Members] LDAP and home directories

[Jeremy Leonard]

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>On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 11:36 -0500, Jeremy Leonard wrote:
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>>I have three servers for three different departments.
>>I'm using OpenLDAP for SAMBA and Auth.
>>My workstations are SUSE 9.2.
>>pam is configured to auth against the LDAP dir.
>>I have the homeDirectory attr set to /home/UserName in LDAP
>>I use pam_mkhomedir to create the path on workstation.
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>>How can I automatically mount the users home directory from their server to the /home/username dir when a user logs in? I'd love to be able to use an LDAP attr for this.
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>>I've tried using pam_mount but that doesn't let me dynamically choose which server to map to.
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>>Also, when I do have the user's home directory mounted X won't run. It crashes when it tried to load the windows manager after the user logs in.
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>>Thanks,
>>Jeremy
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>>Jeremy Leonard
>>Systems Engineer
>>CNE, MCSE, CCA, A+, CNS
>>Gracon Services, Inc.
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>I just started using autodir.
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>http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/Autodir-HOWTO.html
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>The reason is that on different machines pam_mkhomedir would work for
>different log in methods and not for others.  So like if someone who did
>not have a home directory on a machine with a scanner attached and they
>used a kerbized rsh command, it would not make a home dir.  Also it
>would not if someone logged in at the console in some cases.  Autodir
>completely replaces mkhomedir in that it creates the directory any time
>anyone tries to access that directory.
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>Your problem sounds a little different.  Have you tried just having the
>entire home directory tree be an nfs mount?
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>Dirk
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pam_mkhomedir works fine for me.
I don't want to use NFS.
The bigest issue is that different users' home directories are on 
different server. I'd have to have all the servers mounted for that to work.