HowTo Request: LDAP Auth + Local Home

[twm1010]

First off, I apologize if this is in the wrong place.

Goal: to setup our 10.5 machines to authenticate against edirectory, but use local home directories.

Our LDAP source is a Novell eDirectory, and I can get the authentication to work and am presented with a desktop, but I receive a message stating that the home is not in the usual place and cannot be accessed. In LDAP config, I have mapped the “homedirectory” attribute to #/Users/$USERNAME$

Where have I gone wrong here?

Thanks in advance,
Tom

[twm1010]

Well… I ended up using #/Users/$uid$ and boom, local home directories for me!

I could swear I had tried that before, oh well. I think perhaps I may have mapped the wrong attribute before, where i used “homedirectory” instead of NFShomedirectory

Either way, it’s working! 😀

Tom

[twm1010]

Our users carry far too much data (work) directly in their desktop which would fall into their home directory. gigs on gigs of traffic that would clog our hub and spoke architecture. They don’t roam, or have any need to take their home directory to another machine, so we’d prefer to just to have a local account generated on login, like an AD user not setup to have a roaming profile, a fresh start on each machine.

Now… if anyone can help me find the LDIF file that’s supposed to accompany the documents on integrating acs with eDirectory, that would be awesome. I’ve contacted authors of separate documents, but no response yet. It seems like macenterprise.org had the files at one point, but doesn’t any longer.

Tom

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