Autodir

Autodir

[ramana]

Dear all,

It started when I stuck with intraperson documentation. I stuck becuase 
there is no good software to create home directories automatically for 
unix accounts in ldap.

I thought threre is simply no way it can be done without serious 
drawbacks. But autofs kernel module came to rescue.

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Autodir HOWTO  
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/intraperson/Autodir-HOWTO.html?download

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Re: Autodir

[Taylor, ForrestX]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 05:12, ramana wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> It started when I stuck with intraperson documentation. I stuck becuase 
> there is no good software to create home directories automatically for 
> unix accounts in ldap.
> 
> I thought threre is simply no way it can be done without serious 
> drawbacks. But autofs kernel module came to rescue.
> 
> Welcome to http://www.intraperson.com/autodir.html
> 
> 
> Autodir HOWTO  
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/intraperson/Autodir-HOWTO.html?download

Just curious--doesn't pam_mkhomedir.so work?

Forrest

Re: Autodir

[ramana]

ramana wrote:

> I work on Linux.
>
> Its not pure ldap question but it does not fit exactly to any mailing 
> list I know. So I decided to ask here.
>
> Posix/shadow ldap accounts have home directory associated with them. I 
> can get those accounts to any server which require them --for example 
> using nss_ldap.
>
> But the question is how to create home directories on the server 
> automatically as IMAP and other servers depend heavily on physical 
> presence of home directories.
>
> One solution is pam_mkhomedir, But it only works when the server uid=0.
>
> Any better solutions such that it should be transparent to the server 
> and works with any server.
>
> Because I am planning to code a very simple solution -- to be used 
> with autofs to solve this problem. If there is better solution I 
> consider that.
>
> Regards
> ramana
>
This what I posted to ldap mailing list once.

Regards
ramana

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