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Creation policy for home directories

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Posted: 17 Aug 2005

Q:
We are have Identity Manager 2.01 set up and running in our lab, and I can't figure out how to create user home directories using rules. My thoughts are I need some type of rule in the creation policy to set, create and grant rights to the users home directory, but I cant find any examples on how to do this.

A:
Your best bet is to create a set of Template objects in eDirectory that have the Home Directory assigned to be the parent of where you want home directories created, as well as the correct file system rights to the home or other directories. Then in the publisher creation policy you would assign the correct template to each user using the "set operation template dn" action. Alternatively, you could just assign the Home Directory attribute in the creation policy instead of assigning the template, with the caveat that you will get the default assignment of file system rights (which is usually good enough).

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