pam_oddjob_mkhomedir(8)pam_oddjob_mkhomedir(8)NAME
pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so
SYNOPSIS
session optional /lib/security/pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so
DESCRIPTION
The pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so module checks if the user's home directory
exists, and if it does not, it invokes the mkhomedirfor method of the
com.redhat.oddjob_mkhomedir service for the PAM_USER if the module is
running with superuser privileges. Otherwise, it invokes the mkmyhome‐
dir method.
The location of the skeleton directory and the default umask are deter‐
mined by the configuration for the corresponding service in oddjobd-
mkhomedir.conf, so they can not be specified as arguments to this mod‐
ule.
If D-Bus has not been configured to allow the calling application to
invoke these methods provided as part of the com.redhat.oddjob_mkhome‐
dir interface of the / object provided by the com.redhat.oddjob_mkhome‐
dir service, then oddjobd will not receive the request and an error
will be returned by D-Bus.
If oddjobd has not been configured to provide these methods, or the
user is not authorized to use them, then oddjobd will ignore the mod‐
ule's requests.
SEE ALSOoddjob_request(1)oddjob.conf(5)oddjobd.conf(5)oddjobd(8)oddjob Manual 29 May 2008 pam_oddjob_mkhomedir(8)