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The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. You can specify the umask to use when creating the home directory via the module too, so you don't need to worry about forcing world-readable home directories either if you don't want them. Otherwise, login is denied. Trademarks are the property of their respective owners. No such file or directory If I add the line below, I cannot login because it fails to create the directory Code: This is working, but it's not an acceptable solution. This solution is very simple to implement, and can be useful in a lot of situations.

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This is very handy but if your users are also able to access through Samba no home directory will be created, since it does not authenticate through PAM.

If you're in a large environment you might find using an automounter more useful - this would allow you to mount an NFS home directory for each user who logs in. In both cases the users are exposed through Mkomedir.

Active mkhomedlr years, 4 months ago. Share This Page Tweet. Wow, I Googled for 4 days searching for the answer you just provided: From a system administrators point of view it is tempting to create local users on the laptop but this causes trouble because you have to manage several password stores.

The hostname in the " host " attribute on the user can be prefixed with "!

pam_mkhomedir(8) - Linux man page

It only takes a minute to sign mkkhomedir. Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. This is working, but it's not an acceptable solution. If you'd like to contribute content, let us know.

If you read the code for the module you'll find a nice option that doesn't seem to be documented anywhere obvious: Welcome to the most active Linux Forum on the web.

The big advantage of this approach is mkhomevir each users home directory is identical regardless of which system they login to.

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For example we want to allow users whose primary ldap group is admins gidNumber and also members of group developers secondary group The following filter should do the trick: The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. It also requires less access rights to the LDAP directory and does not expose password hashes.

Because I don't know all usernames that can login at the machine, so I have to create home directories dynamically. This can be accomplished through the use of NSCD.

Giving users a home directory automatically

I have already debugging enabled, tells authentication succeeded. This schema provides the " hostObject " objectClass, which has the proper " host " attribute. Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, mkhomddir exercises at the end of each chapter.

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Solution 2 is LDAP pass-through authentication. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

To add the " host " attribute to a user, he should have an objectClass that supports this. Debian is a registered trademark of Software mkhhomedir the Public Interest, Inc.

Force PAM to create user home folder if it already not exists

You can specify the umask to use when creating the home directory via the module too, so you psm need to worry about forcing world-readable home directories either if you don't want them. Originally Posted by corp Try changing umask to 0 and see if it helps at all. It seems like you have correctly stated the mmhomedir options. Still if you like give it a try. I'm trying another configuration. You'll probably be satisfied with this related article!