[Freeipa-users] How to handle users with multiple homedirs on different machines?

[Coy Hile]

For solaris, just use the standard automounter config in auto_home:
*  /export/home/&


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-------- Original message --------
From: Lukas Slebodnik <lslebodn at redhat.com>
Date: 06/03/2015  02:29  (GMT-05:00)
To: netvent at gmail.com
Cc: freeipa-users at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] How to handle users with multiple  
homedirs on different machines?

> On (02/06/15 17:07), swartz wrote:
>> I have a environment that spans across multiple physical locations where
>> there is a mix of Linux and Solaris workstations/servers. So far we've been
>> managing accounts (/etc/password) via Puppet.
>>
>> Problem: FreeIPA allows to store only one homedir path.
>> Q: Is there a way to store/set a different home path based on the system
>> that the user is logged into?
>>
> sssd configuration is quite flexible in this way.
> You can override homedir with configuration option
> man sssd.conf -> "override_homedir"
>
> However sssd is available just on linux (or FreeBSD)
> I'm not sure which clients do you use on Solaris or other
> old system, maybe there is a way how to override homedir as well.
> Or you can configure home directory attribute to the non-existing
> attribute in FreeIPA and use some fallback (if possible)
>
>> As an example, I have user Bob.
>> On a Linux box Bob has homedir at /home/b/bob
>                                          ^
>                                 Unfortunatelly, there's no way how to say
>                                 sssd to use just first letter from name.
>> On a Solaris this is likely /export/home/bob
>> While on some other odd system it could be /mnt/nas/users/bob
> Different "prefix" for homedir "/export/home", "/home", "/mnt/nas/users"
> could be addresed with the option homedir_substring in sssd conf.
> https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1853
>
> So you could store "%H" in ldap attribute,
> but clients need to understand such value.
> (sssd >= 1.11.6). I'm not sure about other clients.
>
> LS
>
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