Make your place more secure
Make your place more secure
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Autodir creates home, group directories for LDAP/NIS/SQL/local Unix accounts transparently.
Autodir enhances security of your system in many ways.
For instance, it constantly monitors permissions assigned to directories and corrects them to admin settings if found to be modified.
Autodir has transparent backup feature so that whole system need not bring offline for backup purpose. (see docs)
Autodir can create hundreds of thousands of directories not effected by underlying file system performance or architecture.
It is very easy to configure and no configuration file required. Just couple of command line options.
Autodir is quite modular and extendable.
Autodir uses Linux autofs4 kernel module to detect directory requests and create them on demand.
| Playing with Autodir |
| Autodir-HOWTO |
| Autodir and backup locks |
| Autodir and multipaths |
'Few' of the more interesting features not yet documented! See below for more adventure.
Can we access home directories from /home/dirs and all those same directories from other places like /ftp?
Its possible with Autodir!
Support for chroot processes?
Yep.
We do not want to create home directories in /home/dirs but is it possible to create same those directories for different use and whatever way we would like with lot of flexibility?
Yep. Autodir is very flexible in this way! Thanks partly to Frank Benkstein.
We deleted a user from our database and created new user with same name. Now how this will be handled?
Use renamedir suboption and Autodir will move those old home directories to the specified directory. Thanks to PiotrWadas.
| download |
Autodir can be downloaded from here.
This version uses autofs4 kernel module. If old autofs module already loaded, remove it and load autofs4 module.
# rmmod autofs # modprobe autofs4
Source
Debian <Francesco P. Lovergine>
autodir_0.99.8-0sarge1_i386.deb
Fedora <Matthias Saou>
Available from FedoraProject.
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| news |
| Released 0.99.9 version. Some minor bug fixes. | |
| Released 0.99.8 version. Problems with new autofs4 module which supports protocol 5 fixed. | |
| Released 0.99.7 version. Some bugs fixed. | |
| Released 0.99.6 version. Backup code completely rewritten. | |
| Released 0.99.4 version. More suboptions added to modules to make them more flexible. | |
| Released 0.99.3 version. Autodir switched to monotonic time where ever real time not required. Shutdown sequence changed and thread objects initialization improved. | |
| Released 0.99.1 version. Module version checking added. Missing compile time check for libcap added and other autoconf bug fixes. | |
| Released 0.99.0 version. Fastmode sub option added. New option -N and other improvements. | |
| Released 0.96.2 version. Expiry made much more aggressive with multiple threads doing expiry on demand. | |
| Released 0.96.1 version. New -V option introduced for verbose logging and other improvements and bug fixes. | |
| Released 0.96.0 version. Lots of internal code changes. New thread caching and reuse added. Logging revisited and enhanced. More bug fixes and code improvements. | |
| Released 0.95.2 version. New suboptoins nocheck, noskelcheck, owner, group introduced. | |
| Released 0.95.1 version. Multi path feature now officially announced. | |
| Released 0.94.3 version. Code and performance improvements. | |
| Released 0.94.2 version. Autodir now uses shared locks instead of exclusive locks. | |
| Released 0.94.0 version. Autodir now supports backup locks which opens up many more possibilities. | |
| Released 0.93.2 version. New automisc module added which creates any directory that is accessed. Also errors with kernel capability support is handled gracefully with this release. | |
| Released 0.93.1 version. Code optimized in autofs events handling main section. | |
| Released 0.93.0 version. Moved from old autofs3 module to new autofs4 kernel module. Now Autodir supports only autofs4 protocol as this protocol is much more robust than previous one. | |
| Released 0.92.1 version. POSIX capabilities revisited. Few more unnecessary capabilities removed. Now mode sub option added to autohome and autogroup modules. With autogroup module, nosetgid sub option no longer supported as it is replaced by mode. | |
| Released 0.92.0 version. Performance improvements. And also now, more than one backup program can be launched at a time rather than one per second as in previous versions. | |
| Released 0.91.5 version. Fixed security feature, which avoids /etc/skel/ if it has more than three hard links, turned out to be a bug. Thanks to Mike and Andreas Sandberg. | |
| Released 0.91.4 version. Bug causing random hangups on virtual directories fixed. | |
| Released 0.91.3 version. Chdir system call not used in thread safe way. Fixed. | |
| Released 0.91.2 version. Minor bug fixes. | |
| Released 0.91.1 version. Bug fixes 1030300, 1035032 and 1038828. | |
| Released 0.91 version. Code improvements and heavy testing. | |
| Released 0.28 version. Initial release. |
| contact info |
| Author: | Ramana Enaganti email: ramana <> intraperson.com |
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