RE: home directory with nis and automount

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

The only way currently would be to actually modify the code of
useradmin/save_user.cgi, specifically line 408. Maybe in a future
version I will add an access control option to change this default
though ..

 - Jamie

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 05:37, Hackett, Peter wrote:
> Anyone have any thoughts on how I can change the default behaviour to not
> create the home directory without having to ask the webmin user?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:57 PM
> To: 'web...@li...'
> Subject: RE: home directory with nis and automount
> 
> 
> If I can change the default behavior to NOT create a home directory so I can
> handle it with a post-run script, that works... but how can I configure
> that. I only see a way to either present or not present the question to the
> webmin user of creating home directory. If I configure it to not ask the
> question , it tries to create it anyway, which fails. Is there a way to
> change the default to 'not-to-create' the home directory vice creating it
> when the quesiton isn't asked.
> 
> Ultimately, I don't want the webmin user to be presented with the option of
> creating a home directory, and I don't want webmin to try to create a home
> directory.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Peter.
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Cameron [mailto:jca...@we...]
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:36 PM
> To: web...@li...
> Subject: Re: home directory with nis and automount
> 
> 
> What kind of error message does it fail with? I can imaging that when it 
> tries to run  mkdir /home/someuser  for a new user, that will fail because
> that directory does not exist on the NIS server .. and I can't see any
> obvious
> solution.
> 
>  - Jamie
> 
> "Hackett, Peter" <PHa...@ta...> wrote ..
> > Has anyone got webmin to work correctly when using auto_home automount
> > maps?? Regardless of what I try, it fails when creating test accounts.
> > 
> > Suggestions appreciated.
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:41 PM
> > Subject: home directory with nis and automount
> > 
> > All.
> > 
> > Trying to figure out how to configure webmin user creation mechanism in
> > a
> > Solaris NIS environment with auto_home automount map.  The home direcotory
> > in the password file needs to be at /home/username.
> > 
> > The auto_home map entry is:
> > "username               bigserver:/users/username"
> > 
> > I suspect I can do something with a pre and post webmin-run scripts to
> > make
> > this work, but can't seem to make anything work. I've tried a couple
> things
> > like creating and making the auto_home map entry, but still errors saying
> > can't create home directory. If i set the users home directory base to
> > /users in the conf, that works, but it needs to be /home and not /users...
> > 
> > Any and all help appreciated
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Peter
> 
> 
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