[Fedora-directory-devel] Does FDS 7.1 support RFC2307 ?

[Jeff Clowser]

Adam Stokes wrote:

>On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:55:52 -0400
>Jeff Clowser <jclowser at unitedmessaging.com> wrote:
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>>Last time I played with this, you did still have to create users home 
>>directories, though, so you can't completely avoid touching the box.  
>>But... a fairly easy way to fix this is to have a cron job that runs 
>>periodically that looks at ldap and creates (and deletes if you want) 
>>home directories as appropriate.
>>
>> - Jeff
>>
>>David Irving wrote:
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>>>Nope.. Once in LDAP and everything is configured correctly on the
>>>linux box, you don't have to do anything to passwd or shadow to let
>>>a user log on to the box. I currently have this kind of setup using
>>>RHEL and it works great!
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>I haven't done much work with NIS and FDS, however, in openldap using
>the nis.schema you could create automount entries that would allow you
>to mount those home directories on the fly.
>
Ah - if you have an nfs server with users home directories, you can (and 
a good idea, I'd say).  I was thinking more along the lines of home 
directories on a local disk, in which case I think you'd have to create 
home dirs for users.

 - Jeff