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 but you should share the same home directory with all your systems and then no problem! RB Manuel Amador wrote: >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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>-- >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>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 >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click