Web server accounts from an AD

[Foggy]

I am setting up a 10.4.2 server to provide web space for our students. I have successfully made a BIND to our AD. We have users home directories on a separate server that will be used just for file services (homes). I want to use the same account information they login with to authenticate to the web server via FTP and get a second home (or just the sites folder) So my question(s) go

What is the best way to populate my web server with AD users that have already got home directories on another 10.4.2 server? Am I trying to sync the AD with the OD for this?

I can see all the AD accounts in WGM but cannot figure out how to use the info so that homes are created on the web server and allow users to FTP into their sites folder using the same login and password as they do for regular authentication.

This is my fist attempt at building a web server so sorry if this all seems a bit green. Any tips guidance ideas URLs greatly appreciated

Carl Rohumaa

[kreynen]

ANSWER:

I have servers bound to AD.

Once bound, users can login.

Rather than automagically create directories, I use…

mkdir usersdir
chown -R username usersdir

I have a script that converts my class rousters into command line instructions.

ftp won’t drop them into their homedir, but I changed the ftp root to be the top user dir.

QUESTION?

While I can’t get Apache security “realms” to work with AD users, it doesn’t seem to work with groups. Anyone know how to fix that?

[Foggy]

How about making the web server a replica of the file server? What would be the best way to “grab” users from the file servers OD?

Or do I bind Apache to the AD?

Why can’t I just drag and drop users from the AD and drop them into a local netinfo node? WMG allows you to see both directories in two different windows. I suppose that would be too easy tho.

[benhur]

I am very interested in this as well. Would like to make a web server for teachers from many schools across the district. Also, have a separate Xserve for their home directories. I’m using 10.4.6 on both servers.

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