For directory (LDAP, etc..) based authentication you can create the home directory and copy the skel over to it. Validating permissions of course.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Greg Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > What about creating the user's home directory when you create the user's > account? Will that not work? It would eliminate the need to perform the > extra step of logging in as the user and then logging back out again. > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:28 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My virtual machine has a setting that when the first time a user logs in, >> it creates a home directory for the user automatically if the user does not >> have a home directory. >> >> In my script, I want to achieve: Log in as different users so that they >> all have home directory setup. But I'm not sure how to do it. >> >> I tried to write this in my task: >> - name: Create home dir >> remote_user: testuser2 >> shell: /usr/bin/whoami >> >> But it threw an exception: >> >> OpenSSH_5.9p1-hpn13v12 Debian-ts14, OpenSSL 0.9.8zc 15 Oct 2014 >> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config >> debug3: key names ok: >> [ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ssh-rsa,ssh-dss] >> debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 13: Applying options for * >> debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master >> ControlPath too long >> >> While if I change the remote_user to a user that has already had a home >> directory in the machine, it will finish successfully. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/30265bec-17b2-47fe-9b3f-08cd4db5eefb%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAPdwyX6jDodhn2T3itQ4D_ZGRfst8cCvcUr-4ksj%3D7vzeCRE0Q%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ~ Andrew "lathama" Latham [email protected] http://lathama.net ~ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2Bqj4S_i2y5gOb%3DviDGgA_WjiEo0CABtU8-Qt45b%3Dpr02v7fYQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
