3 Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
7 <sect1>Create home directories on initial login
14 <tag><bf>Module Name:</bf></tag>
17 <tag><bf>Author:</bf></tag>
18 Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
20 <tag><bf>Maintainer:</bf></tag>
21 Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
23 <tag><bf>Management groups provided:</bf></tag>
26 <tag><bf>Cryptographically sensitive:</bf></tag>
28 <tag><bf>Security rating:</bf></tag>
30 <tag><bf>Clean code base:</bf></tag>
32 <tag><bf>System dependencies:</bf></tag>
34 <tag><bf>Network aware:</bf></tag>
38 <sect2>Overview of module
41 Creates home directories on the fly for authenticated users.
43 <sect2>Session component
48 <tag><bf>Recognized arguments:</bf></tag>
49 <tt/debug/; <tt/skel=skeleton-dir/; <tt/umask=octal-umask/;
51 <tag><bf>Description:</bf></tag>
52 This module is useful for distributed systems where the user account is
53 managed in a central database (such as NIS, NIS+, or LDAP) and accessed
54 through miltiple systems. It frees the administrator from having to create
55 a default home directory on each of the systems by creating it upon the
56 first succesfully authenticated login of that user. The skeleton directory
57 (usually /etc/skel/) is used to copy default files and also set's a umask
61 The behavior of this module can be modified with one of the following
68 - The skeleton directory for default files to copy to the new home directory.
71 - An octal for of the same format as you would pass to the shells umask command.
75 <tag><bf>Examples/suggested usage:</bf></tag>
77 session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0022
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