pam_oddjob_mkhomedir
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 29 May 2008
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NAME
pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so - PAM module to create users home directory via oddjob
SYNOPSIS
session optional /lib/security/pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so
DESCRIPTION
The
pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so module checks if the user's home directory
exists, and if it does not, it invokes the
mkhomedirfor
method of the
com.redhat.oddjob_mkhomedir service for the
PAM_USER
if the module is running with superuser privileges. Otherwise, it invokes the
mkmyhomedir method.
The location of the skeleton directory and the default umask are determined by
the values of HOME_MODE or UMASK (as a fallback) variables in
/etc/login.defs, so they can not be specified as arguments to this
module.
If D-Bus has not been configured to allow the calling application to
invoke these methods provided as part of the com.redhat.oddjob_mkhomedir
interface of the / object provided by the
com.redhat.oddjob_mkhomedir service, then oddjobd will not receive
the request and an error will be returned by D-Bus.
If oddjobd has not been configured to provide these methods, or the
user is not authorized to use them, then oddjobd will ignore the
module's requests.
OPTIONS
The module takes no options. What
oddjobd does in response to the
module's request is controlled by the daemon's configuration file, typically
/etc/oddjobd.conf.d/oddjobd-mkhomedir.conf.
SEE ALSO
oddjob_request(1)
oddjob.conf(5)
oddjobd.conf(5)
oddjobd(8)