I'm looking for a mechanism to automatically create a users home directory
when he logs in for the first time
Thanks,
The autodir package will do precisely that. It's easy to setup too: yum -y install autodir mkdir /u Edit /etc/sysconfig/auto AUTOHOME_HOME=/home/ldapusers AUTOHOME_OPTIONS="realpath=/u,level=2,skel=/etc/skel,mode=0700"home service autohome start