>> You cannot use indirect mounting and enablemkhomedir at the same time. >> Indirect >> mounts require that the directory you are attempting to mount already exists >> on >> the NFS server and that you let autofs fully manage the "parent" directory on >> the client machine. In this case, no one other than autofs can create >> directories in the top-level of /home on your clients (/home/<user> is a >> different story). >> >> So you either need to pre-create the home directories on your NFS server >> (including ownership, permissions, and any "skel" stuff you want in there >> like >> a default .bashrc) or you need to direct mount /home altogether and lose the >> benefits of indirect mounting (which may not matter to you). >> [...] > > So this means I can either use /home mounted as NFS share conventionally > (without autofs) in combination with mkhomedir or use autofs magic with > pre-created directories.
You can still use autofs and mkhomdir, just use a direct mount for /home instead of indirect mounts. In other words, mount "/home" entirely vs. "/home/<username>" individually. Regards, j -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users Go to http://freeipa.org for more info on the project
