Re: HomeDirectory and OpenLdap.

Gordon Messmer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.psyche
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le Ngoc Thach wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have been using OpenLdap for Center Authentication. User's home 
> directory is presented by attribute "homeDirectory" in OpenLdap.
> I have 2 problems:
> 1) When a user login Linux (ex: using ssh from remote host), the home 
> directory is not still created. So there is a error message:
> "Could not chdir to home directory /home/$user: No such file or directory.
> ($user is real name of user).

Yes, if you want separate home dirs on each system, you could configure 
/etc/pam.d/system-auth on the client system to user PAM's 
"pam_mkhomdir.so" module.

> 2) I have 2 Linux Servers named A and B: A is running OpenLdap, B is not 
> but using OpenLdap in A server for Authentication. When I login to B 
> server, the home directory is in B. So, for a user, there are 2 home 
> directory: one in A and one in B. Could I use a network directory for 
> home directory?

Yes, you can export /home on A to B using either NFS or AFS:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/
http://www.openafs.org/

I believe that both are available in the default configuration of Red 
Hat Linux.


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