[Freeipa-users] How to set the home directory for AD users?

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Thu Apr 9 16:39:07 UTC 2015


On 04/09/2015 12:34 PM, Guertin, David S. wrote:
> We have a trust relationship set up between our IPA domain and our AD domain. When ad AD user logs in to an IPA client, they are given a home directory of /home/<ad-domain>/<username>. I would like to change this to /home/<username>. (I'm not interested in automatically creating the home firectory on login, I just want to change the directory name.) The users are not assigned a home directory in AD, so it's up to IPA to set it.
>
> In the [nss] section of /etc/sssd/sssd.conf, I have
>
>    homedir_substring = /home
>
> but that doesn't do it. Neither does:
>
>    fallback_homedir = /home/%u
>
> Where can this variable be set?
>
> Thanks,
> David Guertin
>
On which version of the SSSD?

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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.




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