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Re: Shell script to make Home Directory by Active Directory Group

Hi Dan,

On 24 Feb 2005, at 01:53, Ball, Dan wrote: 
Here is the dream setup I would like to get running:

On login I would like to have a script check to see which group the user is in, if the user is in the Active Directory group "Staff" then copy the user template if they don't all ready have one to there U: drive which for staff would be \\Staff_fac\Drives\users_username and use that as the users Home for now on.

If it was a cad student logging in and the script seen it was a cad student then it would copy from the user template if they don't already have one to there U: drive which for CadStudents would be \\Student\CAD\Drives\users_username


I presume you have Panther clients bound to your AD using Apple's plugin?

Without knowing details of your setup, i can see some major hurdles. LoginHooks run as a root process on the client machine, so how will you create a directory (with appropriate permissions) on a remote server? If these directories are configured in the AD as the users' home directory, then a batch creation tool on the appropriate server would be a better approach, bearing in mind that users added using AD Users & Computers should have had a directory automatically created. If you're running with network home directories, then Panther's required subfolders will be created at first login, if needed. What is the problem you're trying to solve?

HTH

matt

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