On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 02:20:25PM -0400, Doctor High wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 18:54, Steve Langasek wrote: > > 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. > Suppose I should do the same for su as well? :-) Probably so.... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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