[Freeipa-users] Auto-Mount Home Directory for Local Users?

[Brian Cook]

Are you trying to mount the network home dirs to /home?  I usually do something like create /home/net/ and mount them there.  That way local users home dirs do not match an auto mount key.

Brian




On Jun 18, 2013, at 4:49 PM, Dean Hunter <deanhunter at comcast.net> wrote:

> Thank you for your response. As you suggested I checked /etc/nsswitch.conf. ipa-client-automount left the line looking like:
> 
> automount: sss files
> 
> So I changed it to:
> 
> automount:  files sss
> 
> rebooted and tried again. The results were the same.
> 
> I also checked /etc/passwd. There is an entry for local which was created by Anaconda during the system build.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Ainsworth, Thomas" <tainsworth at vsi-corp.com>
> To: Dean Hunter <deanhunter at comcast.net>
> Cc: freeipa-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Auto-Mount Home Directory for Local Users?
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:34:08 -0400
> 
> A couple of things to check (you probably have done this thought)...
> 
> - Make sure the entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf reads:
> 
> automount:  files sss
> 
> - Also, do you have a "local" account entry in /etc/passwd?  That may confuse things...
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Dean Hunter <deanhunter at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have successfully configured FreeIPA to auto-mount the home directory
> for FreeIPA users.  But on those occasions when I need to login as the
> local administrator I can not get a home directory:
> 
> [root at host ~]# ssh local at fedora19
> local at fedora19's password:
> Could not chdir to home directory /home/local: No such file or directory
> -bash-4.2$ logout
> Connection to fedora19 closed.
> [root at host ~]#
> 
> where local is a member of the wheel group. Where do I start?
> 
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