[Fedora-directory-users] FDS and Automatic home dir creation

[Bliss, Aaron]

Just wondering, do the nfs clients have write permissions to the nfs
mount point? 

Aaron

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[mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Brian
Kosick
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:30 PM
To: fedora-directory-users at redhat.com
Subject: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS and Automatic home dir creation

Hi All,

I just found out about the fantastic pam_mkhomedir.so pam module.   I
have it working somewhat, I just need to know if what I want to do is
possible.    
Here's my setup:

FC4 with Fedora Directory Server 1.04 and is also the NFS /home share.
On this server I have in the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file the following
entry

session         required        pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel
umask=0077

Then I have client machines that use FDS and the /home NFS share to
provide central login and /home dir capabilities.
The /home dir itself is NFS export RO and only the user dirs are RW
within it.  

Using ldap (hostobject, pam_check_host_attr) attributes, I do not let
users login to the FDS /home share server, just the clients.
I want to know it it is possible that the first time a user logs into
one of the clients that it can somehow be passed to the /home dir server
to create the users home dir.   

I have it working with test users currently, but ONLY when they are
allowed to login into the /home dir server, not any of the clients.

Any help, suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Brian

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