After releasing his software intraperson beta, Ramana started working on a administration guide that deals with the administration aspects of intraPerson. But he was stuck with one simple thing. It is easy to create users in LDAP - at least I think so - but how to create home directories for those users in LDAP wherever those LDAP accounts are imported?

Ramana found some solutions, but he was not satisfied as every solution has serious drawbacks. After leafing through the Autofs documents and hacking a bit, he came to the conclusion that the Autofs protocol might offer a much better solution to this challenge.

The result is Autodir, based on the Autofs protocol.