Re: when creating a user, home dir not created!

The problem with CPU is that if you create an LDAP account on a system,
the home directory is created on only that system and that system only. 
When the user attempts to log in on another system, there won't be a
home directory.

El vie, 19-12-2003 a las 10:27, Raoul Beauduin escribió:
> 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
> > 
> >   
> 
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