2010/1/12 Ajeet S Raina ajeetraina@gmail.com:
Kwan..Thanks for the options. I have no X Windows Installed. But I can easily run :
authconfig-tui
which doesnt show any home directory creation option. But yes, I can see options like:
[root@localhost ~]# authconfig --enablemkhomedir usage: authconfig [options] <--update|--test|--probe> options: -h, --help show this help message and exit --enableshadow, --useshadow enable shadowed passwords by default ... winbindusedefaultdomain is not enabled their primary group
--enablemkhomedir create home directories for users on their first login --disablemkhomedir do not create home directories for users on their first login --nostart do not start/stop portmap, ypbind, and nscd -- --probe probe network for defaults and print them [root@localhost ~]#
May I know what command I need to type to work out: --enablemkhomedir create home directories for users on their first login Pls Suggest?
Can you elaborate or provide any tutorial for Option 2?
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Kwan Lowe kwan.lowe@gmail.com wrote:
2010/1/12 Ajeet S Raina ajeetraina@gmail.com:
Hello Guys,
[snip]
Now When I try logging into the server through :
username: meet password:****
It says:
login as: snalamwar snal@10.209.37.77's password: Last login: Wed Jan 13 03:00:09 2010 from 10.209.37.146 Could not chdir to home directory /home/snal: No such file or directory -bash-3.2$
Then I manually created a directory under /home as snal:
mkdir /home/snal
And Tried logging and this time it does login.
Is this process correct? Do we need to create home directory manually.
Assuming that you are running on CentOS/Redhat, you have a couple options:
- Run system-config-authentication. Go to the options tab, check the
box to create home directories.
- Set up automount to mount a remote filesystem for the home directory.
Both have advantages and disadvantages. I use mostly option 2, with a few critical machines on option 1. -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users
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Ajeet,
I would suggest you read many guides like http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_OpenLDAP_for_Unix_Authenti... by Google pam unix ldap
While the redhat tools can make it easy, in the long run it pays to understand how to configure pam files, /etc/ldap.conf, nsswitch and other supplemental tools.