Linux – LDAP Users Home Directories

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I'm trying to setup linux login via an LDAP server.

I have everything working except setting the user's home directory. There is no parameter in the LDAP database that I can map to the homeDirectory attribute and I don't have the power to change the databse.

Is there any way I can configure it to use something like /home/$UID, where $UID is the username they're using to login/that's coming from the LDAP attribute uid?

Thanks.

Best Answer

Put

map passwd homeDirectory "/home/$uid"

to /etc/nslcd.conf (on Debian systems, on other systems it might be /etc/(ldap)/ldap.conf)

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Ubuntu LDAP Make Home Directory

The way we solved this is to add another attribute to LDAP, something like linuxHomeDirectory . Then you can create a mapping in ldap.conf:

nss_map_attribute homeDirectory linuxHomeDirectory

The for each user you set the attribute in LDAP to the path you want for their Linux home dir, such as /home/$username or whatnot.

If you have your home directories served from OS X server, you can mount those with an automounter in the /Volumes/$servername/$path hierarchy on Linux and then you don't need to do any LDAP attribute mangling.

More info: Here's an article how to extend the LDAP schema in OpenDirectory: http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20060228230005854

To populate the user attributes you can use the ldapadd and ldapmodify tools.

Linux SCP – Can SCP Copy Directories Recursively?

Yup, use -r:

scp -rp sourcedirectory user@dest:/path

-r means recursive
-p preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file.

Note: This creates the sourcedirectory inside /path thus the files will be in /path/sourcedirectory

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