[Bug 677090] Re: Please consider adding a pam profile for pam_mkhomedir

[michael perigard]

integration with pam-auth-update would be great, but privilege
separation in sshd turned on by default in ubuntu would cause this to
fail. I'm open to suggestions - I'm about to turn privilege separation
off because I can't find a better, simple home directory creation
solution, and I'd rather try to keep sshd up to date and on a non-
standard port than create a separate user with root privileges for ldap-
account-manager, or any of the other solutions Ive found to auto-create
home directories when adding users to an ldap-auth'd system.

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Title:
  Please consider adding a pam profile for pam_mkhomedir

Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: libpam-runtime

  pam_mkhomedir is often used on conjunction with libnss-ldap and other
  scheme that uses network directory for user.  To make use of
  pam_mkhomedir, you would usually have to edit /etc/pam.d/common-
  session.  Integration with pam-auth-update would be much better.
  Attached is a pam-config profile for pam_mkdir.  It default to not
  enabling pam_mkhomedir, as it is not required in the common case.
  Please consider adding it to libpam-runtime.

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