[Fedora-directory-users] Is it possible to use events to create homedirs when user entry is created or deleted? (resend)

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Friday 27 October 2006 07:27, Kimmo Koivisto wrote:
> Resending this message:
>
> Hello
>
> I have small environment with one FDS server and one application
> server, both RHEL4ES. FDS server provides ldap authentication and home
> directories for app server with ldap and nfs.
>
> I administrate users and groups with phpldapadmin or windows based
> ldapadmin, everything is working fine.
>
> When I add new user to the FDS, I have to create home directory for
> that user manually, set permissions and copy /etc/skel files.
>
> I would like to do home directory administration tasks automatically
> when user is added or deleted from FDS.
>
> One solution (I don't like this) is that I use some command line ldap
> capable adduser instead of ldapadmin or phpldapadmin.
>
> Does FDS have any event support that I could use or are there any
> existing solutions for this problem?
>
>
> Best Regards
> Kimmo Koivisto
you can set pam to create the home dir on first login

but you would still need to remove manually.

another option is a cron job  that runs a script that creates and deletes 
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Dennis Gilmore, RHCE
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