DS 6.0 Sudoers Updated and Home Directory Creating
We are looking into deploying DS6 with RHEL 3,4 and Solaris 8-10 client servers. I was hoping someone could confirm a few things for us.
1. When we create a new user is it possible to have the user's home directory created when the user logs into a server for the first time?
2. Is it possible to have the sudoers files get updated without having to use NIS or netgroups?
How do we go about these two things? Thanks.
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sadiq6a] at [2007-11-27 8:40:23]
# 1
Hi,
Both of these questions are related to Solaris and are not specific to Directory Server.
And Directory Server is really a data repository and does not create, update applications / OS files itself when doing user provisioning.
A Solaris tool can create a user in LDAP and create its home directory.
A provisioning application can do the same.
Directory Server will not do it when an LDAP entry is added.
Regards,
Ludovic.
# 2
> 1. When we create a new user is it possible to have
> the user's home directory created when the user logs
> into a server for the first time?
Yes. The ability to do so comes from the pam_ldap module that handles the login process. RHEL 3 and 4 ship with the open source pam_ldap module that can do this. The pam_ldap module supplied with the NativeLDAP client in Solaris, however, does not. For Solaris you will need to use the open source pam_ldap module from http://www.padl.com. That is basically what RHEL is using.
> 2. Is it possible to have the sudoers files get
> updated without having to use NIS or netgroups?
I'm not sure about the sudoers file, but if you are looking to set up restrictions on which user can log into which client then all you need to do is use the host attribute in the user's entries to list which clients they are allowed to log in to.
-Scott
