On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:55:52 -0400 Jeff Clowser <jclowser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Last time I played with this, you did still have to create users home > directories, though, so you can't completely avoid touching the box. > But... a fairly easy way to fix this is to have a cron job that runs > periodically that looks at ldap and creates (and deletes if you want) > home directories as appropriate. > > - Jeff > > David Irving wrote: > > >Nope.. Once in LDAP and everything is configured correctly on the > >linux box, you don't have to do anything to passwd or shadow to let > >a user log on to the box. I currently have this kind of setup using > >RHEL and it works great! > > > > > > -- > Fedora-directory-devel mailing list > Fedora-directory-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-devel I haven't done much work with NIS and FDS, however, in openldap using the nis.schema you could create automount entries that would allow you to mount those home directories on the fly. This is probably a good one for the how-to section, I'll do some research and see what I can come up with. If anyone has any success please feel free to respond to the list and I can get that information posted for others. Thanks -- # adam stokes
