[CentOS] CentOS5 pam_mkhomedir

Tue Aug 7 13:36:51 UTC 2007
Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Peter Huber
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:20 AM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] CentOS5 pam_mkhomedir
> 
> I have a problem creating homedirs on the fly. Since RHEL5 / 
> CentOS5 you have to 
> use pam_oddjob_mkhomedir instead of pam_mkhomedir.
> Everything is working (the homedir is created) but two things.
> First on every logon I get the following error message, and I 
> don't know how to 
> fix it:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
> com.redhat.oddjob was not 
> provided by any .service files
> 
> Second: The permissions of the new created homedir is wrong. 
> It should be 700 
> but it is 755.
> 
> Can anybody tell me, how to fix these two problems?

I have no problem with pam_mkhomedir on my CentOS 5 installation:

session     optional      pam_keyinit.so revoke
session     required      pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0077 silent
session     required      pam_limits.so
session     [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so service in crond quiet use_uid
session     required      pam_unix.so
session     optional      pam_krb5.so

Works for me, the option for setting the home dir perms is umask=

-Ross

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