[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA for Linux desktop deployment

[Adam Young]

Lets try to isolate it a little further.  If you log in to that machine 
as root, and then do su - nasir, does it let you create the directory or 
give you the same error?  I'm guessing it is ssh that is complaining 
here.  If the mount point is set up correctly, you should be able to 
crete and chown the /home/nasir directory, either via odd job, or just 
test it as root.

What I am guessing is happening here is that ssh is not triggereing the 
odd job creation of the home directory.  Either that, or this particular 
IPA client was run without the switch to create the home-dir.  If 
Automount is commented out, does the /home/nasir directory get created 
on the local disk?


On 05/16/2011 09:19 PM, nasir nasir wrote:
> Thanks again!
>
> No! it allows auto mount that pre created home folder *ONLY  to the 
> NFS server*. For e.g if I have */xtra/home/nasir* alread created, then 
> it automatically mounts  while login to NFS server ( ssh -l nasir 
> NFS_SERVER ). But when I try to login as the same user to some other 
> machine ( ssh -l nasir ANY_IPA_MACHINE) it gives the following error,
>
> *[root at openipa ~]# ssh -l nasir 192.168.1.222 -X*
> *nasir at 192.168.1.222's password: *
> *Creating home directory for nasir.*
> *Last login: Tue May 17 04:06:43 2011 from openipa.cohort.org*
> *Could not chdir to home directory /home/nasir: No such file or directory*
> *-sh-4.1$ ls*
>
> So it is not working right ? Hope it is clear to you now.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Nidal
>
>
>
>>     If I manually create one home folder( e.g */xtra/home/abc* )
>>     under than, then I can mount it, but nothing can be written to it
>>     by the user as it gives permission denied error.
>>
>
>     Yes, but it should allow the root user to create and chown the
>     directory, so the autocreation of home dirs should work.
>
>

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