Hi Aaron,

No the Directory /home is not RW, just the user dirs within it.   I use
autofs to mount/umount the dirs as needed.   The entry looks like this

*       -soft,intr,nodev,tcp,rw server.domain.com:/home/&

Brian

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 22:19 -0400, Bliss, Aaron wrote:
> Just wondering, do the nfs clients have write permissions to the nfs
> mount point? 
> 
> Aaron
> 
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> Kosick
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:30 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS and Automatic home dir creation
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I just found out about the fantastic pam_mkhomedir.so pam module.   I
> have it working somewhat, I just need to know if what I want to do is
> possible.    
> Here's my setup:
> 
> FC4 with Fedora Directory Server 1.04 and is also the NFS /home share.
> On this server I have in the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file the following
> entry
> 
> session         required        pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel
> umask=0077
> 
> Then I have client machines that use FDS and the /home NFS share to
> provide central login and /home dir capabilities.
> The /home dir itself is NFS export RO and only the user dirs are RW
> within it.  
> 
> Using ldap (hostobject, pam_check_host_attr) attributes, I do not let
> users login to the FDS /home share server, just the clients.
> I want to know it it is possible that the first time a user logs into
> one of the clients that it can somehow be passed to the /home dir server
> to create the users home dir.   
> 
> I have it working with test users currently, but ONLY when they are
> allowed to login into the /home dir server, not any of the clients.
> 
> Any help, suggestions would be appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> 
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