On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:45:33PM -0500, Darek M. wrote: > Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > >I have googled for a very long time, but I haven't found any useful > >howto on this issue. Well, there is > >http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html > >but that seems to be a bit confusing an not up-to-date. I guess it > >_should_ be possible - and indeed very useful (especially combinde > >with Samba PDC and an easily maintainlable mail server). So please, if > >you have any experiences or knowledge of a useful description..! > > > >Regards, > >Jon Theil Nielsen > > At the risk of a thread-jack... > > how are home directories handled? Will 'user' have a home dir on the > local system? I suppose once LDAP is set up properly, you can then > create the home dir, then chown it 'user', with 'user' not being a local > user and not in passwd/master.passwd files. So when you chown/chgrp, > those commands go through pam/nss/ldap to retrieve the proper id and > name from the LDAP server?
There's security/pam_mkhomedir, which should do what you want. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" - Edmond Blackadder III _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"