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Re: Cannot enter home directory. Using /.



On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 07:57:15PM +0200, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> cc'ing to the debian-edu mailing list, where more people could give 
> advice. Please consider to subscribe to the list if not yet done.
> 
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 09:01:00AM +0000, Tom Duguid wrote:
> > 
> > I have a SckoleLinux server installed with the main server and 
> > workstation options selected for install.
> > I have 10 workstations with SkoleLinux installed.
> > I made a mistake when installing some of the workstations using 
> > sitesummary2ldap so I removed them using GOSA2.
> > I used 'sitesummary2ldap -a -i ether-xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx -t workstations' 
> > to put the workstations back on the server.
> > The workstations that I had NOT added and removed previous to this 
> > worked.
> > The workstations that I had added by mistake and removed previous to 
> > this came up with the following error whenever any user attempts to log 
> > in: 'Cannot enter home directory. Using /.'
> > 
> > I can recreate this on a Virtual Machine setup by adding a workstation 
> > client to the VM server (it works at this point) and then removing it 
> > through GOSA2 and adding it again through sitesummary2ldap. When I try 
> > to log into the VM workstation I get the 'Cannot enter home directory. 
> > Using /.' error again.
> 
> Confirmed for a combined server (jessie) and clients in a VirtualBox 
> test environment.
> 
> I was able log in after disabling the nscd netgroup cache using these 
> steps (on tjener):
> 
> service nscd stop
> rm /var/cache/nscd/netgroup 
> sed -i '/netgroup/ s/yes/no/' /etc/nscd.conf 
> service nscd start
> service nslcd restart
> service nfs-kernel-server restart
> 
> Please consider to test the workaround.
> 
> Wolfgang
> 

Aha, that's it. Looks like the same problem as mine.

Regards

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