On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 01:48:59PM -0400, Doctor High wrote: > I've had the same prolem as Troels. It really appears that the > problems depend on what user the pam_mkhomedir module is run as. For > instance, it works fine with older versions of sshd without priviledge > separation where it runs as root, but it fails under the newer sshd with > priv_sep, and it appears that pam_mkhomedir is being run as the user > instead of root. If I am correct about this, then it makes sense that > the pam_mkhomedir would fail under the prov_sep version of sshd, since a > normal user will *not* be able to write to /home to create his home > directory. > So the issue for me and Troels is: how can we force pam_mkhomedir to > run as root so that it will be able to work with the file permissions on > /home to create the home directory? Convince the OpenSSH maintainers that the current behavior is incorrect, and get them to change it. Good luck, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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