[Samba] Override Linux homedir given by AD

[Rowland Penny]

On 31/10/13 10:28, Simon wrote:
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> On 2013-10-31 10:03, steve wrote:
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>> On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 22:27 +0000, Simon wrote:
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>>> The Linux uid is pulled from the uidNumber in Active Directory
>> Hi
>> That's a bad idea and may explain why the homedir is not working. It's
>> best to leave uidNumber as it is and pull uid as samAccountName.
>>
>> e.g. you would expect a home directory to be something like:
>> /home/domain/simon
>> rather than:
>> /home/domain/30012673
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
> Thanks but I'm not sure I follow,
>
> At the moment when I log on with an AD account that has not logged in
> before the users home is created in /User and then if I run the command
> 'id' the uid matches the attribute called uidNumber in AD.
>
> Is this not good?
Hi, I think that there is some confusion here, uid seems to be getting 
mistaken for uidNumber. uid is the usersname and uidNumber is the users 
uid number (obviously), if you create a user through ADUC and then add 
the UNIX attributes you get both, uid which is the same as the username 
or samAccountName and the uidNumber.

Rowland