After much futzing, I figured something out. Creating the user using the Sun One console works. However, to have a home directory on a specific server, that home directory has to be created and the user has to be given rights to the folder based on their UID number. After creation of the user and directory, create the automount home directory in the Sun One console. This will fill the directory with the appropriate files, and the new user can fully use the home directory on the server. Writing a script or program to do this would probably be helpful. So would having Sun make this work through the console. As far as I can see, the whole point of the console is to alleviate the need for manually creating users and directories. My $0.02. Many thanks to those who helped. James Swanson Unix Sysadmin DTRA Phone: 703-767-4541 -----Original Message----- From: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Swanson, James CONTRACTOR Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 12:20 PM To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject: Summary but not quite fixed: RE: Problems creating users in LDAP Thanks to Will Dowling, I'm not getting the home directory errors any more, and I can log on locally to our Sun boxes. Basically, I have to manually create the directories on each of the clients. But this brings up another issue. The users created by my predecessor can log in, and their /export/home/$username on the LDAP server is their home directory. I can't do that, I had to create home directories manually on each client box. Did I miss something? James Swanson Unix Sysadmin DTRA Phone: 703-767-4541 > > I've been trying to add myself to our Sun One 5.2 LDAP server. I'm > logged in as Admin, I added myself through the Sun One Server Console, > put in appropriate groups, added an automount directory, etc. Did all > that, hit okay , and tried to log in. Doesn't work. I looked up the > documentation from my predecessor, followed his instructions, and when > I get to the bottom of the document , he wrote, "And now what, the > user still can't logon and this procedure doesn't create a home > directory on the server." I'm having the same problem. What am I > missing? > Is there a secret command that I have to run to get the user to work? > Any help would be appreciated, as I'm still a beginner with this type > of system. Thanks. > > James Swanson > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Apr 6 11:32:20 2005
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