Autodir HOWTO

Venkata Ramana Enaganti

<ramana <> intraperson dot com>

2004-09-23

Revision History
Revision 1.04	2007-5-25	Revised by: VRE
Minor updates
Revision 1.03	2006-09-15	Revised by: GaMA
Review requested by author.
Revision 1.02	2004-12-25	Revised by: VRE
Minor updates
Revision 1.00	2004-09-23	Revised by: VRE
Initial release, reviewed by Rahul Sundaram at TLDP
Revision 0.32	2004-09-13	Revised by: VRE
New sections like requirements and others.
Revision 0.10	2004-06-24	Revised by: VRE
second draft
Revision 0.9	2004-06-11	Revised by: VRE
first draft

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

1.1. Copyright and License
1.2. Disclaimer
1.3. Feedback
1.4. New Versions of this Document
1.5. Credits / Contributors

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

18.1. Base directories for autohome
18.2. Directory organization
18.3. Misc suboptions for autohome
18.4. Example

19. Managing group directories

20. Autodir options

21. Backup options

22. Examples

23. RPM specific

24. Further Information

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