You may also need to restart sssd or nslcd, depending upon which one is running the backed ldap connection service on the clients. On Dec 19, 2015 14:25, "Tim Dunphy" <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I've setup an LDAP server on our network. I'm using OpenLDAP. > > It was really easy to use the authconfig-tui to generate the nsswitch.conf > and ldap.conf files that would allow user authentication. > > But when users would log in, the system wasn't creating the home > directories. > > I found one command that would correct that: > > authconfig --enablemkhomedir --update > > After that logging in with an LDAP user to that machine would create the > home directories. > > But that only worked on the first machine. Running the command on other > machines would have no effect. Which is odd. You would think it would be > consistent. > > Even after copying over the entire contents of /etc/pam.d from the working > machine to the non-working machine and making sure that the non-working > machine had the same /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/openldap/ldap.conf as the one > that worked. It still doesn't create the home directories when LDAP users > log in. > > The non-working machine also has the required librariy file: > > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 11176 Aug 18 10:56 > /usr/lib64/security/pam_mkhomedir.so > > So how can I fix this? How can I get the system to create home directories > for LDAP users automatically? > > Thanks, > Tim > > > > -- > GPG me!! > > gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >