[Freeipa-users] Automount and home directory creation

[Baird, Josh]

The RHEL6/7 manuals say this:

Use a remote user who has limited permissions to create home directories and mount the share
on the IdM server as that user. Since the IdM server runs as an httpd process, it is possible to
use sudo or a similar program to grant limited access to the IdM server to create home
directories on the NFS server.

I suppose this may be one option that is worth investigating.

Thanks,

Josh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:freeipa-users-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dmitri Pal
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 6:01 PM
> To: freeipa-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Automount and home directory creation
> 
> On 01/20/2015 05:40 PM, Baird, Josh wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm considering migrating to automounted home directories (via NFS), but
> would like to avoid having to manually create/provision the home directories
> on the NFS server.  This [1] blog covers the very topic, but I'm not sure that
> any progress was ever made.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
> >
> > [1] -
> > http://adam.younglogic.com/2011/06/automount-and-home-directory-
> creati
> > on/
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Josh
> >
> >
> Well... there is not simple solution and there was not much demand so it is
> sitting on the back burner.
> 
> A help would be really appreciated to move this forward.
> 
>   --
> Thank you,
> Dmitri Pal
> 
> Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
> Red Hat, Inc.
> 
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