All,

I recently installed K12LTSP on my network and now have it authenticating users against a W2K3 ADS via winbind. I am running into a problem however.

I have a fairly large network with quite a few users and would like the ability to have a script get the AD user information and create home folders for me so that I don't have to create each one individually. I checked out the file 'README.pam_mkhomedir' located in /usr/share/doc/pam and was unable to get the 'session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0022' add on line to work in my /etc/pam.d/login file.

Has anyone successfully created a script that can grab active directory user information and automatically create home folders for them on Linux? If not, can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

-dumbsheep

Yes, I've done this. I found that pam_mkhomedir didn't seem to actually work in practice. The first time that the user logged in the login could fail since the home directory and the files didn't exist for the login to complete.

In the end I simply wrote a Perl script and put it in cron to run every hour. It ran wbinfo -u to fetch a list of users, and compared this with a list of the directories under /home. If no home directory existed for a username it created one, copied in the contents of a template directory, and reset the permissions on the new directory.