Alejandro Feijoo Fraga wrote:

Hi.

i have a large number of users... from diferent language (spanish,english,etc...) all under the same ldap directory and i need change de /etc/motd if user speak spanish or english.

I not found info if ldap can do that, i think put a new entry at ldap (like lenguage:es/en/ga/..) and de /etc/bashrc or similar make a if and compare that entry...

any diferent idea? or any method more easy?

thanks!

Hello Alejandro,

same thing came to my mind. You can use attribute 'preferedLanguage' and then modify each users (well, create template and copy it over) .profile with shell script invoking % ldapsearch; (or something like that) and 'case' control structure for language on which basis will be eg. '/etc/motd.de' cat-ed. I'd leave '/etc/motd' empty. I've found nothing on ldap+motd in the way you want, but don't take my word for it.

So much for very quick solution [confirmation].

Hope it helps, Zdenek