Hello Ponnuvel,

thanks for your regression analysis in comment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/1957024/comments/22

I do, however, agree with vorlon in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/1957024/comments/21
and think there is more risk in this change for Focal users than there
is a benefit. This can be addressed with a local configuration change,
should the local admin want to. And I can definitely see cases where
already deployed systems, using LDAP for example to store their user
information, are a) using pam_mkhomedir; and b) would be surprised to
see new users getting a different set of permissions for their home
directory, without having made any other change. And from experience,
such LDAP systems are complex to deploy and troubleshoot, and I can also
see someone spending quite some time troubleshooting a "weird" problem
that just started happening out of the blue.

I appreciate the effort in this SRU, and I see that it was accepted for
jammy, a more recent LTS. But for focal, I think this is a change in
behavior we don't want in our oldest LTS at this time.

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