[Samba] samba + ldap + pam_mkhomedir ?

[Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH]

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Hi list,
I'm on the way to implement samba with ldap on five servers (each owns
a different nt-domain) and a master server which maintains the central
user database which gets replicated to all the other servers. Now I
have just one more problem, namely homedirs. I want every user to have
a homedir to store for example his profile. This has to exist, and it
would be nice if I could use pam_mkhomedir to create it, but (without
testing) I figure that samba has to authenticate against pam, am I
right? But if I let samba autheticate against pam, do I still have all
the information available, when autenticating against ldap?
What I planned is this:
User log onto pdc -> authentication against pam -> pam autheticates
against ldap
                  |
                   -> if homedir exists everything is fine
                    else
                   -> pam_mkhomedir creates homedir on server

Has anyone done something like this before and could provide some
information?


Thanks and cheers
Nicki

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