[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA for Linux desktop deployment

[Adam Young]

On 05/01/2011 08:49 AM, nasir nasir wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies and great suggestions! I do appreciate it a 
> lot.
>
> Apologies for being a bit confusing about the cetralized /home foder 
> in my previous mail. What I want is that all the users should have 
> their /home folder stored in the storage. This entire partition (or 
> LUN) can be attached to my Authentication server(i.e FreeIPA) by using 
> iSCSI. From the Authentication server, I am NOT looking for iSCSI to 
> get it mounted to the individual users' machine. I think NFS/automount 
> would do that(appreciate any suggestion on this !) And whenever a new 
> user is created, /home should be allocated out of this partition so 
> that whichever machine the user is using to login later, she should be 
> able to access the same /home specific to her regardless of the 
> machine. I hope it is clear to all :-)
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Nidal
>
>     >     -- Centralized storage with iSCSI for /home folder for each
>     user by means of a dedicated storage
>     IPA manages Automount, which is possibly what you want.  Are you
>     going to give each user their own partition that follows them
>     around, or are you going to give the a home directory on a a NAS
>     server?  I Have to admit, the iSCSI home mount sounds
>     interesting.  You could probably get automount to help you out
>     there, but at this point I think that you would need a separate
>     key line for each user.
>
>     Note that iSCSI won't help you if you want to mount the same
>     partition on multiple clients.  For this, you either need a
>     distributed File System, or stick to NFS.
>


Nidal,

OK, I'd probably do something like this:  After install IPA, add one 
host as an IPA client with the following switch:  --mkhomedir,, 
something like  ipa-client-install --mkhomedir -p admin.   Then, mount 
the directory that you are going to use a /home on that machine.  Once 
you create users in IPA, the first time you log in as that user, do so 
from that client, and it will attempt to create the home directory for 
you.    This should be the only machine that has permissions to create 
directories under /home.  Now, create an automount location and map, and 
create a key for /home

The instructions from our test day should get you started:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_freeipav2_automount


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