pam_mkhomedir 777 on parent directory

Thorsten Kukuk kukuk at suse.de
Wed Oct 13 18:05:16 UTC 2004


On Wed, Oct 13, Joey Trungale wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have sshd using pam_mkhomedir to create home directories as users are
> authenticated with pam_winbind.  The home directory setup
> is /home/NT_DOMAIN/username. The only problem with this is that
> NT_DOMAIN must be 777 in order for pam to be able to create the users
> directory in it.  I'm guessing this is because pam drops privs before it
> gets to this point...maybe it's run as the user.  Has anyone ran into
> this problem before?  Any ideas on how to keep my users (who must have
> shell accts) from being able to write to the parent directory of their
> $HOMEDIR?  If this is on the wrong mailing list, let me know.

Has nothing to do with PAM, is a typical sshd problem.

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