OpenLDAP references

[Dennis Ruzeski]

Greetings, all-

Here's my situation. We've gotten to the point here where there's a need for central authentication for our developers. Rather than set up NIS+ or try to use our M$ Active Directory, we're setting up an LDAP server.  
No problem. The server and database is set up properly and I can use authconfig to make the linux systems point to it. The problem is in the details- User home directories, for example. I know I don't need a copy on every box- How do I get it to be available on the logged-in system?    What I'm looking for is a decent reference on how to set up the stuff that authconfig doesn't (pam, home directories, email, etc....)

TIA, 
Dennis