hi

you should verify the order in the pam configuration of your server.
pam_mkhomedir must be called early to create $HOME with credentials, for 
example at auth level.
which part is responsible for creating/filling 
$HOME/.vnc/sessman_$USER_password ?

Emmanuel



Le vendredi 31 août 2012 10:35:42, Lawrence R. Rogers a écrit :
> Folks:
> 
> We are using Xrdp on Fedora 17 for a project and have noticed the following:
> 
>  1.  We are authenticating users using Active Directory – this works fine.
> Note that this is not an AD problem as local accounts have the same problem
> (noted below). 2.  We automatically create home directory when a user logs
> in for the first time. 3.  When a user logs in to Xrdp with their AD
> credentials, their home directory is not yet created  so sharing the VNC
> keys using $HOME/.vnc/sessman_$USER_password cannot be successful.
> 
> I've used strace to see what's going on and indeed I can see where Xvnc is
> started pointing at the user's key and then later the home directory
> created with /sbin/mkhomedir_helper.
> 
> What we've done as a workaround is to ask our users to ssh into the machine
> in question first to create the home directory, then use an RDP client to
> attach to the machine. I'm hoping that the ssh step can be eliminated by
> restructuring the Xrdp code, and if you believe that to be the case, I'd
> like your help.
> 
> Thanks for your time!
> 
> Larry Rogers
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