[Gllug] LDAP

[Simon Stewart]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:51:26PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On 9/24/01, 4:22:46 PM, Simon Stewart <sms at lateral.net> wrote regarding =
> Re:=20
> [Gllug] LDAP:
> 
> 
> > That would be one way of solving the problem of having to create a new=
> 
> > directory every time, and possibly the sanest, though I fear that for
> > consistancy's sake[1], I might be forced to use SMB mounts (*shudder*)=
> 
> > cos this is a nice heterogenous environment with Macs (OS 9 and X),
> > Win32 boxen, Linux and BSD machines.
> 
> Go for Samba 2.2, then.  Not only does winbind unify the management of
> unix and SMB domain accounts but it can use an LDAP database as a
> backend.
> 
> You may want to enquire on the samba mailing list to find the most recent
> version on which these two functions both work reliably.

So, I take it that the behaviour that I want would be achieved by
having the LDAP "homeDirectory" attribute set to an appropriate mount
point? Samba 2.2 sounds like a good idea in any case, if only for
winbind.

Cheers,

Simon

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