On 04/02/2010, at 8:16 AM, Sean Carolan wrote: > Odd, this option was not on my manpage. And it didn't work on one of > my servers. I have two CentOS 5 servers, but one is at revision 5.3, > the other running 5.1. The RPMs are: > > authconfig-5.3.12-2.el5 - doesn't work > authconfig: error: no such option: --enablemkhomedir > > authconfig-5.3.21-5.el5 - works fine! > > Perhaps only very recent versions support this? The reason I ask is > that I have dozens of servers that will need this configuration, but > only some are running Red Hat or CentOS versions new enough to support > the command line option. You can enable it manually by including pam_mkhomedir.so in your system-auth PAM config [see: man pam_mkhomedir]. However, this is likely to be overwritten if you subsequently run the older authconfig without the mkhomedir option. You can probably stop this from happening by replacing the /etc/pam.d/system-auth symlink with a copy of /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac; I believe this will render authconfig completely useless. Tom
