[Bug 1957024] Re: pam-mkhomedir does not honor private home directories

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  pam-mkhomedir does not honor private home directories

Status in pam package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  As reported in https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/private-home-
  directories-for-ubuntu-21-04-onwards/19533/13:

  A common situation is to have a central set of users (e.g. in LDAP)
  and use pam_mkhomedir.so to create the home directory when the user
  first logs in.

  These changes do not cover this situation. The default configuration
  of pam_mkhomedir.so will result in a home directory created with 0755
  permissions.

  To make pam_mkhomedir.so create a home directory by default with
  permissions consistent with the other tools then a umask argument can
  be added to the pam_mkhomedir.so module in the file /usr/share/pam-
  configs/mkhomedir. I believe this would have to be done before
  enabling the module. The file is part of the libpam-modules package.

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