autodir software package provides Automatically creates home and group directories for LDAP/NIS/SQL/local accounts, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install autodir
autodir is installed in your system.
Make ensure the autodir package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep autodir *
You will get with autodir package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | autodir |
| Version | 0.99.9-10 |
| Description | Automatically creates home and group directories for LDAP/NIS/SQL/local accounts |
| Sub Section | Utils |