[Freeipa-users] New user first login behaviour (Fedora 15)

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 09:41 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 08:26 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 04:20 +0000, Steven Jones wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > hmmm......I can login to the workstation via ssh using the ipa
> > > password for thing....but no home directory has been created...
> > 
> > You need to configure pam_mkhomedir if you want that done.
> > 
> > We cannot do that from ipa-client-install because we have no data on how
> > you are going to set up your home directories. We have no idea if you
> > want local ones or if you are going to setup a NFS mountpoint on /home
> > or if you are going to use automonut/autofs or whatever .
> > 
> > You can run the authconfig gui (or CLI) and select the option of
> > creating home directories at login if they are not available yet.
> > 
> > Simo.
> > 
> 
> You can also pass --mkhomedir to ipa-client-install when you're
> initially setting the client up. This will configure pam_mkhomedir (or
> oddjob_mkhomedir, if available) to automatically create home directories
> when users first log in.

Thanks Stephen, I had forgotten we had that option.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York