[KLUG Members] LDAP and home directories

[Jeremy Leonard]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

>>>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.
>>>Your problem sounds a little different.  Have you tried just having the
>>>entire home directory tree be an nfs mount?
>>>      
>>>
>>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.
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>? then don't you need to mount them?  mkhomedir will make a new local
>home directory.
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mkhomedir will create the users' home dir on the workstation to mount 
their network home in.
I know I need to mount the homedirectories. That's what I'm trying to 
figure out how to do.
I'm looking for a way to mount their homedirectory based on attrs in ldap.