It could be that I am missing something simple. But I can’t determine why users authenticated via AD are not getting home directories. I’ve looked at the documentation and tried to discover an error log but can’t find anything. Here is what I know.
OS: RedHat 6 Software: Likewise 6.0 (RPM Install) Successfully bound to an Active Directory domain… authentication via console and SSH works.
However when I login via the domain no home directory is created and subsequently BASH doesn’t have a profile:
-sh-4.1$
Looking at some variables via lwconfig it appears to be setup properly.
]# ./lwconfig --show CreateHomeDir
boolean
true
local policy
# ./lwconfig --show HomeDirPrefix
string
/home
local policy
Thoughts? Happy to provide further information but can’t find anything telling in /var/log/messages or other sources.
As part of troubleshooting this. Does anyone know if the home directory is checked/created on each login of a user or only first? If it occurs only on first login how can I reset/remove a user so it will attempt this process again?
Per Madden's comment: There needs to be a sub 'likewise-open' directory in /home?
my /home directory currently:
4.0K drwxr-xr-x. 9 root root 4.0K Aug 8 10:17 home
In there currently all that exists are local user home directories.
I just noticed a 'local' directory in /home that I hadn't noticed before. This is where the home directories are being stored. Thank you to Maden for helping me notice this
Cheers.
