From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: If you do a first time login to a PC where user account information is not local, you will not have a home dir to log in to. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a Central User Database (NIS,LDAP) 2.Set up workstation to query user databse 3.try to log in on workstation Actual Results: You will log in with / as your home and no basic settings. Expected Results: To have an account the same a local login account. Additional info: This can be easily fixed by having the following line by default in /etc/pam.d/serviceconf the following line: session optional pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=022
Correction to comments. To correct this behaviour, the following line needs to be added to /etc/pam.d/system-auth and NOT /etc/pam.d/serviceconf: session optional /lib/security/$ISA/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=022 This needs to be added by the authentication configuration program upon service changes.
I'll reassign this to authconfig as an RFE.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65331 ***