Check /var/log/secure for why the directory is not able to be created. Might be selinux, is that enabled? (sestatus) On Dec 19, 2015 15:40, "Tim Dunphy" <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You may also need to restart sssd or nslcd, depending upon which one is > > running the backed ldap connection service on the clients. > > > Hmm.. I got a different result after restarting nclcd. Instead of logging > me in and just complaining that it couldn't create the home directory, it > still complains about not creating the home directory, but now it doesn't > let me in: > > #ssh tdunphy at ops2.example.com > > tdunphy at ops2.example.com's password: > > Creating directory '/home/tdunphy'. > > Unable to create and initialize directory '/home/tdunphy'. > > Last login: Sat Dec 19 15:29:54 2015 > > > _ _____ ___ ____ > > | | ___| / _ \ _ __ ___|___ \ > > _ | | |_ | | | | '_ \/ __| __) | > > | |_| | _| | |_| | |_) \__ \/ __/ > > \___/|_| \___/| .__/|___/_____| > > |_| > Connection to ops2.example.com closed. > > I think I preferred it when it would let me in and complain!! LOL > > I can still get in with my non-LDAP admin account fortunately. > > Ok, any other thoughts? > > Thanks, > Tim > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Bill Howe <howe.bill at gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > -- > 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 >