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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:54:17 +0200
From:      Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org>
To:        "Chandler, Jay" <chandler@chapman.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LDAP home directories
Message-ID:  <4535DDA9.503@locolomo.org>
In-Reply-To: <A50A29B70741ED42BE44230B1DF6118414EABC96@ADAM.chapman.edu>
References:  <A50A29B70741ED42BE44230B1DF6118414EABC96@ADAM.chapman.edu>

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Chandler, Jay wrote:
> Does anyone have a way to do home directory mapping through LDAP?  We've
> got user directories mounted via NFS to /usr/users and would like to be
> able to type in "cd ~ted" and go to Ted's home directory, perhaps in
> /usr/users/students/ted.

nss_ldap allows you to map an LDAP parameter to a system parameter. 
There is nss_ldap in ports, but also this summer's Summer Of Code a 
project was aimed at creating a FreeBSD native nss_ldap.

pam_ldap is needed if you want to use ldap for authentication.

Cheers, Erik
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