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Date: | Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:12:35 -0700 |
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Hello All,
I have a rather interesting problem that someone on this list may have
encountered before.
Basically, we have users in LDAP/kerberos, with NFS automounted home
directories.
What I currently do when we get a new user is add them into LDAP,
kerberos, and then I manually (well, scripted) create a home directory
with the username/uid/gid on the NFS server.
A user can then log onto any one of our lab machines, retaining their
home directory and work no matter which machine they log into.
What I would like to do is cut out the home directory creation step and
have that done for me automatically.
i.e. I add the new user to LDAP and Kerberos, then just tell them to
login - their home directory gets created on first login.
I see that there is a PAM module for creation of local home directories,
pam_mkhomedir - can this be used to create directories across an NFS
implementation? Is that secure/recommended? Is there a better method?
Thanks!
~Chris Tooley
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