[SSSD-users] SSSD-AD mkhomedir not working

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Wed Mar 27 16:24:42 UTC 2013


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:11:02PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 16:17 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:10:37AM -0400, Sutton, Harry (GSE) wrote:
> > > On 03/27/2013 10:46 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> > > >On Wed 27 Mar 2013 10:14:21 AM EDT, Sutton, Harry (GSE) wrote:
> > > >>Okay, on my Fedora 18 laptop, I can login to my system as an
> > > >>Active Directory user (sssd-ad), both via ssh from a remote system
> > > >>and locally through one of the console (Ctrl-Alt-F2) screens. (I
> > > >>haven't succeeded in getting the GDM login process to work yet.)
> > > >>But in both login cases, I end up in / as my current directory; the
> > > >>home directory does not get created.
> > > >>
> > > >>The oddjobd daemon is running, and I have an entry for
> > > >>pam_oddjob_mkhomedir in /etc/pam.d/system-auth, (and it shows as
> > > >>'enabled' in the output of authconfig --test) but the directory
> > > >>isn't created on login. I apologize if this question has been asked
> > > >>and answered before, but I'm under some time pressure to complete
> > > >>a training seminar here at HP for making RHEL / AD Integration work
> > > >>and I don't have the time to sift through the list archives.
> > > >>
> > > >>I can provide configuration files and debug log output on request,
> > > >>but I've gone through most of it and haven't found an obvious cause
> > > >>for this problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> > > >>
> > > >Check whether a home directory is listed when you run  'getent passwd
> > > ><username>' for a valid user. It should look something like below:
> > > >
> > > >sgallagh:*:99999:99999:Stephen Gallagher:/home/sgallagh:/bin/bash
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >If you don't have a home directory between the GECOS and shell fields
> > > >in that output, it probably means that you don't have a
> > > >unixHomedirectory specified in ActiveDirectory. In that case, you
> > > >probably want to set the option:
> > > >fallback_homedir = /home/%u
> > > >
> > > >(See sssd-ad(5) for more detail on the options that can take). This
> > > >will tell SSSD to assign a home directory according to that template
> > > >if it's not offered by AD. (AD's version will override this if it
> > > >becomes set. If you don't want that, we also have the override_homedir
> > > >option which forces the local version to win)
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> > > Thanks, Stephen - that solved the directory problem. I had tried
> > > manually enforcing creation with 'create_homedir = true', which is
> > > the default behavior, but it didn't occur to me to set
> > > fallback_homedir.
> > > 
> > 
> > create_homedir is an option that is only valid for a domain that has
> > id_provider set to "local". We keep the option for the local domain in
> > the main sssd.conf file and they keep confusing users. We should split
> > them or explain them better:
> > https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1850
> > 
> > > My AD entry does have an LDAP attribute of "homeDirectory" but not
> > > "unixHomedirectory".
> > > 
> > 
> > Then you can override the default by setting:
> > ldap_user_home_directory = homeDirectory
> 
> Not sure this is advisable, what you find in homeDirectory is usually a
> string in a form you can't use as a unix home directory, hence why they
> also have the explicit unixHomeDirectory attribute.

Ah, sorry, in that case you are right. I was under the impression that
in Harry's case it contained the unix home dir.


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