Module Name: Author: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> Management groups provided: Session Cryptographically sensitive: Security rating: Clean code base: System dependencies: Network aware: Overview of module

Creates home directories on the fly for authenticated users. Session component

Recognized arguments: Description: This module is useful for distributed systems where the user account is managed in a central database (such as NIS, NIS+, or LDAP) and accessed through miltiple systems. It frees the administrator from having to create a default home directory on each of the systems by creating it upon the first succesfully authenticated login of that user. The skeleton directory (usually /etc/skel/) is used to copy default files and also set's a umask for the creation.

The behavior of this module can be modified with one of the following flags:

Examples/suggested usage: session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0022