Re: make user's home automatically

[Jack T Mudge III <jakykong@theanythingbox.com>]

On Monday 02 February 2009 09:43:07 am Anthony wrote:
> hi everybody,
>
> I have a problème about auto home creation.
>
> All my users are on a ldap server with is home parameter. (ofr exemple :
> /home/user1)
>
> I would like to create the users home on user login BUT the home of my user
> is not really the /home/user1 but the  /export/home/user1 directory
> which is auto-mounted on /home/user1 (with other automounted directory)
>
> Somebody know the solution to do this.
>
> I can not use the pam_mkhomedir because the home is not really the home...
> so...
>
>
> would exist an other solution...?:!
>
> thanks for help
>
> Anthony

(I think this belongs on the debian-users list... )

I can't say I'm an expert at ldap, but couldn't you just softlink /home 
to /export/home? I hope I'm not answering the wrong question...

example:
ln -s /home /export/home

-- 
Sincerely,
Jack Mudge
jakykong@theanythingbox.com