The documentation for pam_open_session says, "It should be noted that the effective uid, geteuid(2). of the application should be of sufficient privilege to perform such tasks as creating or mounting the user's home directory for example."
AFAICT, this is contrary to Steve Langasek's assertion that "Session modules are normally invoked after the application has changed uids to that of the target user." If lightdm has already dropped privileges at this point, I think it's a bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956848 Title: pam_mkhomedir.so fails to create homedir in precise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/956848/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
