Re: Bug? Changing netware home directory via LDAP.

[Fergus D. <Fer...@dc...>]

Hi Jim,

I've mapped the NDS "Home Directory" attribute to NWHomeDirectory as I want
"homeDirectoy" to be associated with the posixAccount homeDirectory
attribute. Using LDAP I populate these with values as given (now using
$NWHomeDirectory =~ s/\\/\\5c/g; as suggested by Chris. As I go through the
students I add lines to a batch file that is later run on a client logged
into the netware server as admin. The batch file does the following:

mkdir $path
rights $path <rights> /user=$username
flag $path +di +ri /do
setquota /d:t $vol:$path /b:m 50

I haven't finished testing the script yet and so can't confirm that
everything works perfectly - but we can create a/cs that can login to both
netware and Solaris and have a correct homedir path.

Fergus.

Jim Harle wrote:

> Fergus,
>   What Netware attribute did you map to NWHomeDirectory?  I am interested
> in setting home directories also.  What do you do to actually create the
> directories?  Any other hints?  I have account creation scripts that do
> everything but setup home directories and create GroupWise accounts.
>   --Jim harle
>
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Fergus Donohue wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a problem with setting the Netware home directory attribute via
> > perl-ldap. Here's what I'm doing:
> >
> > I have an NDS8 server on which I'm creating user a/cs. This works fine
> > in the majority of cases but I found what may be a bug in perl-ldap
> > today. I'm setting the NWHomeDirectory attribute (changed name to avoid
> > clash with posixAccount) to items like:
> >
> > cn=CYAN_DATA4,ou=CYAN,o=DCU#0#\students\J-Z\xe\xe2\userj9
> >
> > with no problems - however when I try to set it to the following it
> > doesn't work:
> >
> > cn=CYAN_DATA2,ou=CYAN,o=DCU#0#\students\C-E\ca\ca2\userj9
> >
> > I get garbage in the "Home Directory" dialogue box under ConsoleOne
> > after the "C-E".
> >
> > I've tracked this down to perl -ldap interpreting \c (or \b, \a etc.) as
> > special characters. I build this string on the fly so I can't see an
> > easy way of single quoting it (if that would help?). I've tried setting
> >
> > $NWHomeDirectory="'".$NWHomeDirectory."'";
> >
> > but it didn't help.
> >
> > Has anyone any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Fergus.
> >
> >
> >