Re: when creating a user, home dir not created!
Raoul Beauduin <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.directoryadmin |
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| Organization | Opera |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Yes I agree. That should the next step in the development of DA. CPU (http://cpu.sourceforge.net) does this except that it does not support the samba part. RB Eric Sandall wrote: >Quoting Ken Kleiner <[email protected]>: > > >>Yes, but DA doesn't always run on the system where the user's homedir >>would reside. >> >>For example, I run it on a MAC OS X system - creating entries on a >>linux ldap server. I sure wouldn't want DA to create a homedirectory >>on my MAC system for a linux >>user. If it did do that, I would have to first make sure that my MAC >>nfs mounts the linux server's home directory filesystem so that it can >>get created in the right place. >> >>An option to do this would be nice, but I don't think that was the >>intent of DA. >> >>Am I off base here? >> >>I am thankful for the tool even w./out that option! >> >>-Ken >> >> > >At a guess, that's probably the main reason this functionality hasn't been >implemented in DA. As it is, I'm sure a patch to add /optional/ support for >this (i.e. another tab, such as the e-mail or samba tab, with a single tick >[default off] to enable creating /home, and then if that tick is selected, >another tick is shown, or perhaps just grayed out, [this time, probably default >on, as most people who create a user directory want /etc/skel to be copied] to >copy the contents of /etc/skel to the user's new directory). > >An additional idea would be to have a way to define the file server in this tab, >and then somehow (SSH?) DA could connect to the server (if it's not localhost, >which wouldn't require a connection) and create the user's home directory, but >this adds more complexity (what if they don't have SSH running on the file >server? Is there some way to not need DA to login with another shell? Can we >use LDAP (and assume that the file server is connected to the LDAP server, >which it should be, but again, assume...?), etc.)? > >-sandalle > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raoul Beauduin Opera - Batiment IFR - rue Jules Ferry - 64000 Pau - France Tel : +33.5.59.80.29.87 - Fax : +33.5.59.02.35.03 - http://opera.univ-pau.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------