On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 05:32:29PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 15:26 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Almost certainly you do not want a home directory backed by a cifs > > > filesystem, however if you really do I suggest you configure autofs and > > > cifs with multi-user mounts on your machine. > > > > It's not a question of "want", I'm trying to integrate a Fedora > > desktop(s) as seamlessly as possible into an existing Active Directory > > environment, and that means having a user's personal files accessible > > as seamlessly as possible. > > Having a 'separate' path accessible, and using a Windows share as the > home directory for a unix-like machine are quite different things. > Not even windows machine have their profile on a network share. > > > The new AD support in SSSD 1.11 means that > > the AD admins don't need to extend the AD schema and maintain the new > > attributes. > > I know I helped build that. > > > > You will not be able to have the home directory be specified by the AD > > > server though unless you want to cleverly use the unixHomeDirectory > > > attribute (and your windows admin properly populates it for each user). > > > > The actual attribute in AD is "homeDirectory" and is populated with > > UNC paths to the user's home directory. > > That's the windows attribute yes, and homeDrive has the drive letter to > use (IIRC). > > > I'll have to dig into autofs to see if it can do what I want. > > autofs won't have access to the arbitrary UNC stored in AD, but it may > be a good feature request for SSSD. > We do have autofs support in SSSD, maybe we could have some special > module for AD to fake up an autofs configuration out of the Windows > homeDirectory for use with a cifs mount point. > > May be worth opening a RFE upstream. > Automatically mounting per-user windows-shares sounds like something that definitely should be supported. Did you already open a RFE? -- Pasi -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
