When they log in on the Linux box, what are you using to know what the user's home directory is (LDAP, /etc/passwd file, etc.)? That should be your basis.
-John On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:43:45PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > We are running openafs 1.4.0 with Linux clients. > > I want to script a process for shutdown time so that the dot files > from the Linux $HOME directory are copied to the user's openafs space. > But I can't figure how to ask openafs "where is that user's space?". > > Why this is a problem: > > Our open afs system has users created in subgroups, as in > > pols616/fred > pols616/jane > > and > > pols909/bill > pols909/jaime > > Users authenticate and they can find these things under > /afs/ku.edu/usr/pols. If everybody were under the same directory, it > would be easy. > > -- > Paul E. Johnson > Professor, Political Science > 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 > University of Kansas > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > -- "Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself." - Berenice Abbott ------------------------------------------------------------------- John M. Lockard | U of Michigan - School of Information Sys Admin III | 1214 SI North - 1075 Beal Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2112 www.umich.edu/~jlockard | 734-936-7255 | 734-764-2475 FAX ------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
