[Samba] Samba/LDAP and home dir creation

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Wednesday 09 June 2010 4:47:31 pm you wrote:
> Hi Dimitri,
>
> You probably want to enable the PAM module
> responsible for this. Back up and edit your
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth and add the following
> line:
>
> session required pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so
> skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0022
>
> Note: Messing with your pam config may lock you
> out of the system, so be careful.
>
> 2010/6/9 Dimitri Yioulos 
<dyioulos at firstbhph.com>:
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > I'm working on a project to create a Samba
> > PDC with LDAP authentication.  I've been
> > pretty successful in getting everything to
> > work. However, I've run into a small snag:
> >
> > The PDC is built on an OpenSuse 11.2 box.
> >  Most of the member servers are also OpenSuse
> > 11.2 boxes. However, a CentOS 5.5 server was
> > just added to the mix.  While users can lo
> > into the CentOS box, with LDAP providing the
> > creds, no home directory is automagically
> > created as in the OpenSuse boxes.  I'd like
> > to fix that, with your help.
> >
> > I've used authconfig-tui on the CentOS box to
> > enable "Use LDAP" and "Use LDAP
> > Authentication" (the equivalent of YAST's
> > LDAP Client config tool?).  I believe my
> > smb.conf and ldap.conf files are correct
> > (I'll provide them if you all need to see
> > them).  Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Dimitri
> >
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Diego,

That worked perfectly!  I used pam_mkhomedir.so, 
though, as this is a 32-bit system.

Thank you.

Dimitri

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