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

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:06:03PM -0600, swartz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Lukas Slebodnik <lslebodn at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > However sssd is available just on linux (or FreeBSD)
> > I'm not sure which clients do you use on Solaris or other
> 
> Solaris would be configured via LDAP. RedHat appears to have a pretty good
> guide for doing this.
> Same goes for any other systems lacking sssd client or so I hope.
> 
> 
> >
> > >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.
> >
> Hmmm. Is time for a feature request? Should this be directed to SSSD or
> FreeIPA group?

SSSD, please.

> override_homedir appears to have plenty of substitution options. This
> wouldn't be a major change request.
> For more flexibility, I think it would be nice to refer to an output of a
> script for determining homedir overrides.
> 
> 
> > >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.
> >
> As there is no sssd client for Solaris, I think I may have found a
> workaround via automounter as suggested by Coy Hile.
> But that only solves the Solaris specific homdir paths. In any case, I'm
> further today than I was yesterday. Thank you.

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