2023-12-23
| Revision History | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revision 1.05 | 2023-12-23 | FPL |
| Review requested by current maintainer | ||
| Revision 1.04 | 2007-5-25 | VRE |
| Minor updates | ||
| Revision 1.03 | 2006-09-15 | GaMA |
| Review requested by author. | ||
| Revision 1.02 | 2004-12-25 | VRE |
| Minor updates | ||
| Revision 1.00 | 2004-09-23 | VRE |
| Initial release, reviewed by Rahul Sundaram at TLDP | ||
| Revision 0.32 | 2004-09-13 | VRE |
| New sections like requirements and others. | ||
| Revision 0.10 | 2004-06-24 | VRE |
| second draft | ||
| Revision 0.9 | 2004-06-11 | VRE |
| first draft | ||
Abstract
This HOWTO is about the Autodir installation, configuration and other issues related to Autodir. The Autodir system is often applied for making home directories available in an easy way.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Before going into the details...
- 3. Why not pam_mkhomedir?
- 4. Where can Autodir be used?
- 5. What Autodir is not
- 6. Differences between Autodir and Autofs
- 7. How it works
- 8. Some definitions
- 9. Directory organization in the real base directory
- 10. Virtual directory expiration
- 11. Backup support
- 12. Backup program requirements
- 13. Module options
- 14. Autodir requirements
- 15. Autofs kernel module
- 16. Importing user and group accounts
- 17. Getting Autodir
- 18. Managing home directories
- 19. Managing group directories
- 20. Autodir options
- 21. Backup options
- 22. Examples
- 23. RPM specific
- 24. Further Information