Bug 250136 - Authconfig needs to enable pam_mkhomedir when enabling external authentication methods
Summary: Authconfig needs to enable pam_mkhomedir when enabling external authenticatio...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 212790
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: authconfig
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2007-07-30 16:38 UTC by Oded Arbel
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-07-30 17:03:41 UTC
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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 ***


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