On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Andrew Commons <andrew.commons at bigpond.com> wrote: > Edward Capriolo wrote: > >> Andrew, I have worked with this before. The problem is the home >> directory is done with/by the pam mk_homdir module. > >> 1) You might be missing this module >> 2) some daemons SMB, XWindows do not have a pam.d stack correctly to >> include this module. If your login is via SSH check that you >> /etc/pam.d/ssh includes the mk_home_dir in your stack > > Edward, thanks for that suggestion. I'll investigate further but I don't > think it's the problem. If I just create the user in the 389 directory and I > have "Create home directories on the first login" enabled then the Home > directory _is_ created at first login but Gnome then goes pear-shaped after > that and the directory does not get populated with all the Gnome-related > bits required for the desktop to function. This results in an account that > can authenticate correctly but cannot get past the login screen. > > I'm assuming that creating the Home directory is what pam_mk_homdir is all > about and that after that it's up to whatever desktop display manager you > are using to fill in the gaps. > > Cheers, > Andrew > > -- > 389 users mailing list > 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users > Interesting. If the files that gnome is supposed to create are identical for ALL users then could try to update /etc/skel. The contents of /etc/skel should be copied on user creation. (maybe the homedir module has a switch to turn that on/off)
