gennaro.tortone at na.infn.it wrote : > take a look to pam_mkhomedir; it is a PAM module that create > (if it does not exist) the user home directory; Well, pam_mkhomedir doesn't work in some cases, most notably with sshd and privileges separation... I've been using "autodir" successfully for some time now, it's a great little program to achieve exactly what you're asking for. Matthias > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Kimmo Koivisto wrote: > > > Hello > > > > I have small environment with one FDS server and one application > > server, both RHEL4ES. FDS server provides ldap authentication and home > > directories for app server with ldap and nfs. > > > > I administrate users and groups with phpldapadmin or windows based > > ldapadmin, everything is working fine. > > > > When I add new user to the FDS, I have to create home directory for > > that user manually, set permissions and copy /etc/skel files. > > > > I would like to do home directory administration tasks automatically > > when user is added or deleted from FDS. > > > > One solution (I don't like this) is that I use some command line ldap > > capable adduser instead of ldapadmin or phpldapadmin. > > > > Does FDS have any event support that I could use or are there any > > existing solutions for this problem? -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 6 (Rawhide) - Linux kernel 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 Load : 0.00 0.03 0.20