Automatic Account Creation

[Adel Ben Zarrouk]

Hi,

I am just giving you a hint, you can see the PAM pam_mkhomedir, may be this 
one help you.

Regards

--Adel


On Wednesday 14 September 2005 03:32, Smith, Albert wrote:
> >From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Ryan Golhar
> >Sent: Tue 9/13/2005 5:01 PM
> >To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
> >Subject: Automatic Account Creation
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I need your opinion...
> >
> >I have a set of linux machines that authenticate users via LDAP.  Their
> >home directories are mounted via NFS share.  All the machines are RedHat
> >Enterprise 3 Workstations (plus Server for LDAP and NFS)
> >
> >Anytime a new user comes in and needs an account, they have to see an
> >administrator who runs a script that checks the users id against an
> >institution wide system.  If they are a valid user within the
> >institution, an account is created for them and they get their password,
> >ie an entry is created in LDAP for them and a home directory is created.
> >
> >It works well, but I want to do away with the intermediate step of them
> >having to see an administrator.  Ideally, I want them to be able to sit
> >down at a machine, and log in using some username that will either
> >verify who they are and create the account for them, or they attempt to
> >log in using their institution user id and the system sees they aren't a
> >user but proceeds to verify who they are and create an account.
> >
> >Has anyone done anything like this?
> >
> >Ryan
> >
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> I can say in my 15 years I have never seen it, it doesn't mean that it
> doesn't exist I just haven't seen it. And I feel that most administrators
> would be very leary of such an app as it can be very unsecure.
>
>
> Albert Smith
> Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
> HPCSA, RHCT
> Genex Services
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