[SSSD-users] Home Directory not being created

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Wed Oct 9 15:32:10 UTC 2013


On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:25:51AM -0400, Chris Hartman wrote:
> I'm having a problem getting pam_mkhomedir.so to make a user's home
> directory when it's specified using an LDAP attribute. The backend
> directory server is AD on Server 2008. The client is Ubuntu 12.04, sssd
> version 1.11.1.
> 
> First, my sssd.conf:
> 
> [sssd]
> config_file_version = 2
> debug_level = 0
> reconnection_retries = 3
> sbus_timeout = 30
> services = nss, pam
> domains = domain
> 
> [pam]
> debug_level = 0
> 
> [nss]
> debug_level = 0
> filter_users =
> root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus,radvd,tomcat,radiusd,news,mailman,nscd,gdm
> filter_groups =
> root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus,radvd,tomcat,radiusd,news,mailman,nscd,gdm
> reconnection_retries = 3
> 
> [domain/domain]
> debug_level = 0
> ad_domain = domain.local
> id_provider = ad
> auth_provider = ad
> chpass_provider = ad
> access_provider = ad
> enumerate = true
> cache_credentials = true
> # Will check unixHomeDirectory LDAP attribute for a value first
> fallback_homedir = /home/%u
> ldap_user_home_directory = unixHomeDirectory
> dyndns_update = true
> dyndns_update_ptr = true
> ldap_schema = ad
> ldap_id_mapping = true
> 
> I'm testing using the Guest user.
> 
> Guest, unlike all my other users, has a home directory set in the
> unixHomeDirectory attribute (/tmp/Guest). All other users rely on the
> fallback_homedir option. When a normal user signs in and does not have a
> home directory, I've configured pam to create one by adding this to the
> common-session file:
> 
> session required pam_mkhomedir.so umask=077
> 
> This all works fine when ldap_user_home_directory is empty; the home
> directory is created automatically upon logging in using the
> fallback_homedir option.
> 
> However, when unixHomeDirectory actually contains a path, no home directory
> is ever created and I'm always dropped in /.
> 
> Interestingly enough, "echo $HOME" as the Guest returns two different
> values depending on if fallback_homedir is set. If it is set, $HOME =
> /home/Guest. If it's commented out, $HOME = /tmp/Guest.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks!
> 
> -Chris


What does getent passwd Guest say? Which homedir do you get back?


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