On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:14:42PM +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > Sorry to belabour the point... but how on earth do the > people who use ldap provide home directory information ? > Surely they do not keep a password file around just to > provide homedir and uid/gid info ? > > Got any more of those juicy keywords to search on ? :-) Typically this is done with nss_ldap. The only implementation I've seen is the one from PADL (http://www.padl.com/nss_ldap.html), which supports both Solaris and Linux using the schema from RFC2307. Cheers, Nalin