Re: New users without home directories w/LDAP...

[Paul Yoshimune <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> > > > > > "PY" == Paul Yoshimune <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > > > >            
>
> PY> I'm trying to track down what process/script is actually doing the
> PY> work here, so I can replicate the functionality on the other
> PY> machines.  Ideas?
>
> Perhaps it's pam_mkhomedir?  From /usr/share/doc/pam-*/html/pam.html:
>
> 6.15 Create home directories on initial login
>
>  Synopsis
>
>   Module Name:
>           pam_mkhomedir
>   Author:
>           Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Maintainer:
>           Ben Collins <bcollins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Overview of module
>   Creates home directories on the fly for authenticated users.
>  Session component
>   Recognized arguments:
>           debug; skel=skeleton-dir; umask=octal-umask;
>   Description:
>           This module is useful for distributed systems where the
>           user account is managed in a central database (such as NIS,
>           NIS+, or LDAP) and accessed through miltiple systems. It
>           frees the administrator from having to create a default
>           home directory on each of the systems by creating it upon
>           the first succesfully authenticated login of that user. The
>           skeleton directory (usually /etc/skel/) is used to copy
>           default files and also set's a umask for the creation.
>           The behavior of this module can be modified with one of the following flags:
>              * skel - The skeleton directory for default files to
>                copy to the new home directory.
>              * umask - An octal for of the same format as you would
>                pass to the shells umask command.
>   Examples/suggested usage:
>           session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0022
>
> - J<
>
>  
Jason:

Thank you, that was it exactly!  I got buggered a bit because sshd 
wasn't authenticating properly, but that wasn't a PAM issue.  Had to 
turn off UsePrivilegeSeparation in sshd_config, then things worked as 
expected.  Also added pam_mkhomedir to gdm, and now I think all the 
bases are covered.  Thanks again...


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