[Freeipa-users] how can i create home directories automatically on solaris while IPA user login

[Natxo Asenjo]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:

> Ben .T.George wrote:
> > HI
> >
> > thanks for the rply.
> >
> > even i tried native auto_master file with directory checking script. if
> > i feed the user manually to the script, the directory is creating and
> > while login request comes, it didn't.
> >
> > i don't think no one did full solaris integration util now as i asked
> > many questions related to that.
> >
> > now i am little bit confident up to this level. and if everything is
> > working fine, i will try to create automated script for IPA join
>
> automount is not a technology that automatically creates directories, it
> just automatically mounts them on demand.
>
> I'm not aware of a way to automatically create directories on new-user
> logins in Solaris.
>

I have not used 'official' solaris but using omnios (open solaris
derivative) I have used this with their automounter:

http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/GeneralAdministration#Addinglocalusers

Quite nifty. It should work with solaris as well (well, maybe with a little
work).

-- 
regards,
natxo
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