[Samba] Winbind authenticated users - no home directory

[John Oliver]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:34:38PM +0000, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, John Oliver wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:05:56PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
> > > I found a vague reference to that a little while ago, and have been
> > > playing with it.  So far, the best result I've been able to obtain is to
> > > get a message saying it's creating the home directory, and then
> > > immediately boot me out.  The logs say:
> >
> > Actually, what seems to be happening is that pam_mkhomedir.so *can't*
> > make the home directory... if I change it to "sufficient" I can log on,
> > but back in / again.
> 
> Again, this is a Linux issue!
> 
> You need to identify the default home directory for pam_mkhomedir. I think
> it is defined in /etc/default/useradd.
> 
> Make sure the default path exists. In the default home create a directory
> for your NT Domain name. Now your user home directories should appear in
> it.

Victory! :-)

Thanks...

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