On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:22:20AM -0700, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > I am using NIS to authenticate, and I want to create a home > directory/symlink the first time that someone logs in to the machine. I > only set up one home directory in /home (/home/user1), but when user2 logs > in to that machine, there is no /home directory. Is there any way to get > the login script to check for the existence of a /home directory, and if it > doesn't exist, create one or create a symlink to an automounted home > directory (i.e. /rhome/user2)?
Automatic creation of home directories is something pam_mkhomedir was written for. Add it to the session section of /etc/pam.d/login or the equivalent file: session optional /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so If you want to symlink to an automounted directory, the only solution that comes to mind is... to use the automounter. It should be possible with a wildcard map (see autofs(5) for examples) that looks something like this: * :/rhome/& Cheers, Nalin _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
