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The TCC's LDAP server will be used as the authority for the current set of user account names. The name of the LDAP server, and the DN (distinguished name) of the account root, will be hardcoded into the script. For more information about LDAP, see the document on the proposed TCC Secure LDAP editing facility.
The server address is ldaps://ldap0.nmt.edu:636, and the base DN
for accounts is ou=accounts,dc=tcc,dc=nmt,dc=edu.
We need only two attributes:
The uid attribute, which is
the account name.
The gecos attribute, which
is the person's real name.
The first version of this script caused a problem because
it tried to look for user homepages for all the
“machine accounts,” special accounts
created for each user area workstation. Because such
accounts have their home directories specified as
/dev/null, the script caused many
failures of the automounter to bind to /dev/null. We get around that by ignoring
accounts whose uid attributes
end with “$”.