On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Andrew Commons <andrew.commons at bigpond.com> wrote: > Tom Lanyon wrote: > >> Hi Andrew, >> >> On 04/02/2010, at 10:58 PM, Andrew Commons wrote: >> >>> (1) Create the user normally on the system. >> >> Can you define 'normally' ? >> >> Regards, >> Tom > > Tom, > > I'm using System->Administration->Users & Groups -- aka > /usr/bin/system-config-users (this is F11). > > In the "Create New User" dialogue I add values for User Name, Full Name and > the password and select a Login Shell. I make sure "Create home directory" > is checked and I (at present) check "Create a private group for the user". I > also specify the user ID and group ID manually. > > After I have created the user I then login to that user locally and then > logout. This creates the Home Directory and also populates it with all the > required Gnome bits (I'm using the Fedora default desktop). > > After logging out I then go back into system-config-users and remove the > users making sure I deselect the option to remove the Home and Mail > directories. > > I now go into the 389 console and add the user into the directory using > values identical to those I'd used in the original local user create. > > In System->Administration->Authentication I have (obviously) enabled LDAP > for User Information and for Authentication. Under Options I have the (I > think default) settings of "Use Shadow Password", "Local authorization is > sufficient for local users", and "Create home directories on the first > login" checked. > > > Cheers, > Andrew > > > -- > 389 users mailing list > 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users > Andrew, I have worked with this before. The problem is the home directory is done with/by the pam mk_homdir module. 1) You might be missing this module 2) some daemons SMB, XWindows do not have a pam.d stack correctly to include this module. If your login is via SSH check that you /etc/pam.d/ssh includes the mk_home_dir in your stack
