Bug 250136

Summary:	Authconfig needs to enable pam_mkhomedir when enabling external authentication methods
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Oded Arbel <oded>
Component:	authconfig	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Oded Arbel 2007-07-30 16:38:53 UTC

Description of problem:
When using an external authentication method (for example - LDAP), then home
directories for users aren't created as part of the user creating process. Home
directories then need to be created either manually or by adding pam_mkhomedir
to the session section in /etc/pam.d/system-auth.

Enabling pam_mkhomedir should best be done automatically when needed, and as
authconfig is the tool used in Fedora to enable external authentication, then
its probably a good idea to have authconfig also automatically add the
pam_mkhomedir to the pam.d configuration when such authentication methods are
enabled.

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Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2007-07-30 17:03:41 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212790 ***