Bug 766930

Summary: [RFE] Add a new option to override home directory value
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jenny Severance <jgalipea>
Component: sssdAssignee: Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: IDM QE LIST <seceng-idm-qe-list>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 6.2CC: dpal, grajaiya, jgalipea, jhrozek, prc
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Fixed In Version: sssd-1.8.0-2.el6.beta2 Doc Type: Enhancement
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Cause: SSSD only read the home directory value from the LDAP entry and treated it as definitive Consequence: Some client machines might need to override the home directory value that is defined in the LDAP entry because e.g. they might not have access to that centrally defined homedir Fix: The SSSD introduced a new option "override_homedir" that allows the administrator to define a per-client override values for the home directory attribute Result: The administrator is able to define home directory values on a per-client basis.
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Description Jenny Severance 2011-12-12 19:53:48 UTC
Description of problem:


       override_homedir (string)
           Override the user's home directory. You can either provide an absolute value or a template. In the template, the following sequences are substituted:

           %u
               login name

           %U
               UID number

           %d
               domain name

           %f
               fully qualified user name (user@domain)

           %%
               a literal '%'

           This option can also be set per-domain.


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Upstream ticket :: https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/551

Comment 4 Jakub Hrozek 2012-04-03 17:57:26 UTC
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Cause: SSSD only read the home directory value from the LDAP entry and treated it as definitive

Consequence: Some client machines might need to override the home directory value that is defined in the LDAP entry because e.g. they might not have access to that centrally defined homedir

Fix: The SSSD introduced a new option "override_homedir" that allows the administrator to define a per-client override values for the home directory attribute

Result: The administrator is able to define home directory values on a per-client basis.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 11:49:41 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0747.html