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

El lun, 22-12-2003 a las 04:15, Raoul Beauduin escribió:
> yes but you should share the same home directory with all your systems 
> and then no problem!

Sometimes you cannot do this.  The important thing is that you have to
realize that there is *NO* need for the home directory of any user,
until upon login of that user.  And that's where pam_mkhomedir.so
appears and does its job.

> 
> 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
> >>>
> >>>  
> >>>      
> >>>
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