Re: different home directories on different servers

[Daniel Tiefnig <openldap@qmail.infonova.at>]

Harry Hoffman <h.hoffman@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

>    Does anyone have a schema that would allow for seperate home
> directories under each user entry? (ie user: hhoffman server: test
> home: /home/hhoffman; server: test1 home:/export/home/hhoffman)
> Or can anyone think of a good way to do this?

Hmm, the easiest way from an applications point of view would be to 
create an entry for each server / homedir a user has access to, and 
then tell server applications to search the right scope.

Another possibility may be to extend homedirectories with a server 
part:

dn: cn=hhoffmann,ou....
objectclass: ...
homedirectory: /home/hhoffman@test
or, maybe something like
homedirectory: test1:/export/home/hhoffman
or whatever..

You'll then have to modify each application to recognize the new 
syntax, might be a big hack, depending on how much software accesses 
the directory and specially that attribute.

hth,
daniel
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