Bug#348508: ITP: autodir -- Creates home, group directories for LDAP/NIS/SQL/local Unix accounts transparently

["Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:38:11PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> 
> > * Package name    : autodir
> >   Version         : 0.99.0
> >   Upstream Author : Venkata Ramana Enaganti <intraperson-autodir@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > * URL             : http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/
> > * License         : Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0
> >   Description     : Creates home, group directories for LDAP/NIS/SQL/local Unix accounts transparently
> 
> I was wondering about the big difference to just using pam_mkhomedir
> and/or using autofs.
> 
> http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/docs/index.php?entry=entry050704-065857#id3475979
> 
> seems to answer part of the question.
> 

Yeah, I was just looking for a general solution which does not need PAM enabled daemons.
For instance I did not find a decent way to use exim and pam_mkhomedir...
I think the same is true for all smtp servers, anyway. 

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Francesco P. Lovergine