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Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>>"PY" == Paul Yoshimune <paul@(protected)> writes:
>>>>>>
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>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@(protected)>
> Maintainer:
> Ben Collins <bcollins@(protected)>
> 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...
--
Paul H. Yoshimune
paul@(protected)
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