On 10/18/06, Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chandler, Jay wrote:
> Does anyone have a way to do home directory mapping through LDAP? We've
> got user directories mounted via NFS to /usr/users and would like to be
> able to type in "cd ~ted" and go to Ted's home directory, perhaps in
> /usr/users/students/ted.
nss_ldap allows you to map an LDAP parameter to a system parameter.
There is nss_ldap in ports, but also this summer's Summer Of Code a
project was aimed at creating a FreeBSD native nss_ldap.
pam_ldap is needed if you want to use ldap for authentication.
Expanding on what Erik said, pam_ldap and nss_ldap will use the
posixAccount schema, or the attributes your define in your ldap.conf.
So if you already have a way to generate a list of user->home
directory mappings you can import that into your OpenLDAP directory
as, probably, the homeDirectory attribute.
There are plenty of how-to docos out there, take a look. The hardest
part is setting up the directory and improting your data, after that
it tends to "just work".
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