Sometime ago i did post this: (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2006-October/035351.html) on ZFS discuss, and Darren J Moffat gave me the idea to use SSH to create the home directories on the solaris server. So, i did implement that solution, and did post the results in my blog: http://www.posix.brte.com.br/blog/?p=102 For make the things simpler for you :), the post describes the solution that i have implemented to: - Create (automatically) the user home directories (ZFS filesystems) from Linux clients. In a standard scenario, the "pam_mkhomedir" do the job, but if we are using ZFS filesytems to quota, snapshots, etc... we need to create them from Linux too. p.s: I think in the future i will try to improve that solution to let the linux users take snapshots, rollback and etc... But i did find some issues that i'm here to discuss with you.. - I did not find the "permission" that i need to give to the user so it can "chown" a ZFS filesystem. I did try the two ZFS profiles, file_owner, and file_chown without luck. The creation sequence is: 1) The user login on the linux client 2) The stack PAM execute a SSH session to the solaris server to create the user home directory if it does not exists yet (using a "specific user"). 3) The shell for that "specific user" do the filesystem creation task. 4) PROBLEM: This "specifi user" cannot chown the new ZFS filesystem to the final user. So, the user cannot write anything to the home directory. Thanks a lot for your time. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
