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>2. Before going into the details...</H1
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>After releasing intraperson beta, I started working on a administration guide that deals with the administration aspects of <EM
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>. 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?</P
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>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.</P
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>The result is <EM
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