On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Jay Leafey <jay.leafey at mindless.com> wrote: >> Anyone can shed light on why it does not auto-create the home >> directories on initial boot? > > I think the issue here is that the change has to be made in both the > authconfig file and in the /etc/pam.s/system-auth file. Just changing > /etc/sysconfig/authconfig does not do it. You could use something like the > following in your kickstart file instead of all the sed commands: > > /usr/sbin/authconfig --enablemkhomedir --enablelocauthorize \ > --enablepamaccess --update > Ahhh.. that looks like it. I was looking through the kickstart docs but there's no mention of enablemkhomedir or enablepamaccess.. Thanks so much.. Will try it shortly.