Re: User creation on the fly / Default user

[Joe Flowers <flowers@social.chass.ncsu.edu>]

Cameron:

adduser.c seemed to work for me. I had to add the crypt() function to it though and recompile.

Joe
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Cameron Maxwell wrote:

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way that you can create a user on the fly if they dont exist in /etc/passwd, or if that is not possible, can I somehow use a default user (i.e. nobody) if they don't exist in /etc/passwd What I want to do is set up xdm so that normal users see nothing different, but if an account that doesn't exist locally, I would like them to be validated by a remote RADIUS server and then either created locally, or the local uid is set to the uid of as default user For example in /etc/pam.d/xdm, here is what I have so far: auth       optional     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.soauth       optional     /lib/security/pam_radius_auth.so
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
account    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
password   required     /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so
password   required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok use_authtok
session    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
session    optional     /lib/security/pam_console.so  Any suggestions or comments are appreciated. Thanks in advance, -Cam