[Samba] pam_mkhomedir.so not working.

[Bjoern Tore Sund]

Linux Addict wrote:
> Sambains, I gotta samba setup where I use pam_mkhomedir.so to create
> home dir for first time users. Same configuration is working on many
> hosts and if I create a home directory manually, I can login, but not
> on fly. And also when I change the /home permission to 777, its
> creating home directory for new users on fly.
> 
> When strace a su session, I getting the following error. My guess is
> the module is working, but something is preventing. I have selinux
> disabled and root has W permission to /home.
> 
> 
> mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
> 0) = 0x2a98c46000
> write(1, "Creating directory \'/home/DOM/"..., 44Creating directory
> '/home/DOM/user1'.
> ) = 44
> mkdir("/home/DOM/user1", 0700)    = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> time([1203973003])                      = 1203973003
> 
> 
> I played enough with the umask, but cudn't figure out much.
> 
> This is my pam line on system-auth
> 
> session required /lib64/security/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0022

On Fedora Core 5, Fedora Core 6 and RHEL4 I saw the same because 
pam_mkhomedir didn't do 'mkdir -p' only 'mkdir' - it assumed the 
existence of the entire tree and wanted to only create the user's 
personal directory.

This problem was gone in later versions of these distributions.  Exactly 
which versions of pam and pam_mkhomedir these distributions map to I 
don't know, but you may want to check whether this is what you're seeing.

Bjørn
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