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tonnerre edited this page Sep 13, 2010 · 2 revisions

The pam_mkhomedir module provides the means for automatic creation of home directories upon login, if necessary. Key Benefits are:

  • Uses the Pluggable Authentication Module API defined in OSF DCE RFC 86.0.
  • Removes the need to pre-create user home directories.

The software is distributed under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license.

To deploy it, edit /etc/pam.d/ and add:

session optional pam_mkhomedir.so
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