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Description of problem:
pam_mkhomedir.so creating home dir with wrong selinux context type

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-3.7.19-155.el6_3.13.noarch

How reproducible:
Configure pam to use pam_mkhomedir.so. Have user login, then do:  ls -alZ /home

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure pam to use pam_mkhomedir.so.
2. Have user login
3. ls -alZ /home
  
Actual results:
$ ls -alZ /home/
drwxr-xr-x. user2    user2 unconfined_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 jsu2


Expected results:
drwx------. user1    user1      unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 jms


Additional info:
Same bug reported and fixed in FC17: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863132

Please use oddjob_mkhomedir

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This same problem occours with CentOS 7, so I guess RHEL 7 does this too. So authconfig does pam configuration wrong, it should be configured to use this oddjob_mkhomedir.

Related article:
 * http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/69837.html

Hi,

See documentation at : https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-Configuring_Authentication.html

In short, do following steps before joining to domain

yum install -y oddjob-mkhomedir oddjob
chkconfig oddjobd on
service oddjobd start

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Eero