Re: Map NFShomedirectory to new value

[Bill MacAllister <whm@stanford.edu>]

--On Monday, September 22, 2014 01:28:25 PM -0700 Frans Lanting - IT Admin <itadmin@lanting.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> We are using an external OpenLDAP to authenticate users on a FreeBSD server
> and would like to re-map the NFSHomeDirectory to a different location.
>
> Currently that value looks like:
>
> /afs/home.example.com/users/t/jsmith
>
> We'd like to map it to something along the lines of:
>
> /users/jsmith
>
> If anyone could please point me in the right direction of how to do this,
> I'd be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers, Dan

We do this sort of mucking around with the mapping capabilities of
nss-pam-ldapd, http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/.  For example
the following map should do what you want.

 map passwd homeDirectory "${NFSHomeDirectory:-/home/$uid}"

Bill

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Bill MacAllister
Systems Programmer, Stanford University