Autodir HOWTO
+
+
+
+ Francesco Paolo
+ Lovergine
+
+ Debian Project
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+ frankie <> debian dot org
+
+ Venkata RamanaEnaganti
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ramana <> intraperson dot com
+ RahulSundaram
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- 2004-09-23
+ 2023-12-23
+
+ 1.05
+ 2023-12-23
+ FPL
+ Review requested by current maintainer
+ 1.042007-5-25
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Feedback is most certainly welcome for this document. Send
your additions, comments and criticisms to the following
- email address : ramana <> intraperson dot com.
+ email address : frankie <> debian dot org.
New Versions of this Document
- The latest version of this HOWTO will be made available from http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/.
+ The latest version of this HOWTO will be made available from https://github.com/fpl/autodir/.Credits / Contributors
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Before going into the details...
-After releasing intraperson beta, I started working on a administration guide that deals with the administration aspects of intraPerson. For more details check . But I was stuck with one simple thing. It is easy to create users in LDAP - at least I think so - but how to create home directories for those users in LDAP wherever those LDAP accounts are imported?
+After releasing his software intraperson beta, Ramana started working on a administration guide that deals with the administration aspects of intraPerson. But he was stuck with one simple thing. It is easy to create users in LDAP - at least I think so - but how to create home directories for those users in LDAP wherever those LDAP accounts are imported?
-I found some solutions, but I was not satisfied as every solution has serious drawbacks. After leafing through the Autofs documents and hacking a bit, I came to the conclusion that the Autofs protocol might offer a much better solution to this challenge.
+Ramana found some solutions, but he was not satisfied as every solution has serious drawbacks. After leafing through the Autofs documents and hacking a bit, he came to the conclusion that the Autofs protocol might offer a much better solution to this challenge.The result is Autodir, based on the Autofs protocol.
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Getting Autodir
-At this moment Autodir is available in tar and rpm formats. More information can be found at http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/.
+ At this moment Autodir is available in the main archive of Debian GNU/Linux and all its derivative distribution, including Ubuntu. Source repository is hosted on Github at https://github.com/fpl/autodir/.After downloading the source, follow these simple steps to install :
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Further Information
-Mailing list for autodir http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/intraperson-autodir.
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-Official website is at http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/.
+ Official website is at https://github.com/fpl/autodir/.Autofs mailing list http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs.