On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Chris Tooley wrote:
I see that there is a PAM module for creation of local home directories,
pam_mkhomedir - can this be used to create directories across an NFS
implementation? Is that secure/recommended? Is there a better method?
If you use no_root_squash (or all_squash) pam might not have permission
to create the new directory.
It sounds like you nfs mount a parent of the home directory;
if you mounted the home dir directly (as some automount setups do)
you might have to worry about creating both a directory on the
server and a mount point.
I have a very highly customized script which creates the directory
and sets the password as well as many other things so I am not trying
to do what you do, but you might wish to look at useradd, especially the
-m--create-home option.
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