[Samba] Creating user home directories with domain login

[Hall, Ken (ECSS)]

Yep, that's exactly what I'm doing.

The actual authentication comes from a domain, the script adds the local user ID, and can create the home directory if necessary.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Wrosch [mailto:kc8lir at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:29 PM
> To: Hall, Ken (ECSS); samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Creating user home directories with domain login
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, I should have added that this box is not a
> domain controller.  It gets the login info from the
> domain controller.  However, I need it to create the
> user directory if it doesn't exist when the user logs
> in.  Will a script do that?
> 
> Thanks for the quick response!
> 
> Regards,
> Scott
> 
> --- "Hall, Ken (ECSS)" <KeHall at exchange.ml.com> wrote:
> > There's a "login script" option at the share level
> > that can be used to run the "adduser" or "useradd"
> > command.  I'm using a script with some extra smarts,
> > but it can be done pretty easily.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Scott Wrosch [mailto:kc8lir at yahoo.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:20 PM
> > > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > > Subject: [Samba] Creating user home directories
> > with domain login
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I've got Samba set up for domain logins and use
> > > winbind as well.  What I'm wondering is if it's
> > > possible for the home directory to be
> > automatically
> > > created when the user logs in if it doesn't
> > already
> > > exist?  If not, anyone have a relatively easy way
> > to
> > > do this, in addition to giving the proper owner
> > and
> > > group?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Scott
> > > 
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