#3515 ipa-server-install does not configure it's client to make a home directory on first login
Closed: Fixed None Opened 11 years ago by dpal.

Ticket was cloned from Red Hat Bugzilla (product Fedora): Bug 921707

Description of problem:
On the IPA server I can not use an IPA login. The login fails becuase it can
not create /home/dean/.ICEauthority. On the IPA server there is no home
directory created for the user. On IPA clients there is the --mkhomedir option
for ipa-client-install, but there does not seem to be a similar option for the
client when using ipa-server-install.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Installed Packages
freeipa-admintools.x86_64                   3.1.2-1.fc18
@updates
freeipa-client.x86_64                       3.1.2-1.fc18
@updates
freeipa-python.x86_64                       3.1.2-1.fc18
@updates
freeipa-server.x86_64                       3.1.2-1.fc18
@updates
freeipa-server-selinux.x86_64               3.1.2-1.fc18
@updates


How reproducible: Consistent


Steps to Reproduce:
1. ipa-server-install ....
2. ipa user-add new-user ....
3. reboot
4. login as new-user


Actual results:
Dialog box with "Can not create /home/new-user/.ICEauthority"


Expected results:
Successful login


Additional info:
Work-around is to execute:

  authconfig --enablemkhomedir --update

BEFORE ipa-server-install.

IMO, all we need to do is to add ipa-client-install's flag --mkhomedir also to ipa-server-install and ipa-replica-install.

Metadata Update from @dpal:
- Issue assigned to akrivoka
- Issue set to the milestone: FreeIPA 3.2 - 2013/03

7 years ago

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