[Lias] pam_mkhonedir.so winbind

Simon Bryan sbryan at olmc.nsw.edu.au
Wed Nov 12 08:30:04 UTC 2003


David Lloyd said:
>
> Simon,
>
>> I just removed the pam_mkhomedir from the pam.d/login and a user home
>> directory, when I login using winbind the home directory is still
>> re-created!!!
>
> Strange.
>
>> Is there something I need to do other than simply edit the pam.d/login
>> file to make the changes effective? Or does this mean there is some
>> other 'dark' force at work here?
>
> Which service is being used? If it's gdm then the pam.d file would be
> /etc/pam.d/gdm and of course any file referenced by a pam_stack module.
> I've never known winbind to create home directories by itself.
>

Just found another call to pam_mkhomedir in the gdm file (and it has
skel=/etc/skel), so I guess that is what did that trick!
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Simon Bryan
IT Manager
OLMC Parramatta



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