Hi, I am just giving you a hint, you can see the PAM pam_mkhomedir, may be this one help you. Regards --Adel On Wednesday 14 September 2005 03:32, Smith, Albert wrote: > >From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Ryan Golhar > >Sent: Tue 9/13/2005 5:01 PM > >To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' > >Subject: Automatic Account Creation > > > > > > > >Hi all, > > > >I need your opinion... > > > >I have a set of linux machines that authenticate users via LDAP. Their > >home directories are mounted via NFS share. All the machines are RedHat > >Enterprise 3 Workstations (plus Server for LDAP and NFS) > > > >Anytime a new user comes in and needs an account, they have to see an > >administrator who runs a script that checks the users id against an > >institution wide system. If they are a valid user within the > >institution, an account is created for them and they get their password, > >ie an entry is created in LDAP for them and a home directory is created. > > > >It works well, but I want to do away with the intermediate step of them > >having to see an administrator. Ideally, I want them to be able to sit > >down at a machine, and log in using some username that will either > >verify who they are and create the account for them, or they attempt to > >log in using their institution user id and the system sees they aren't a > >user but proceeds to verify who they are and create an account. > > > >Has anyone done anything like this? > > > >Ryan > > > >-- > >redhat-list mailing list > >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > I can say in my 15 years I have never seen it, it doesn't mean that it > doesn't exist I just haven't seen it. And I feel that most administrators > would be very leary of such an app as it can be very unsecure. > > > Albert Smith > Sr. Unix Systems Administrator > HPCSA, RHCT > Genex Services > 440 E. Swedesford Rd. > Wayne, PA 19087 > albert.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > (610) 964-5154 -- Adel Ben Zarrouk Opennet MEA FZ LLC Tel: +971 4 390 1943 Fax: +971 4 390 4767 http://www.opennet.ae/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
