Please consider adding a pam profile for pam_mkhomedir

[Etienne Goyer]

Binary package hint: libpam-runtime

pam_mkhomedir is often used on conjunction with libnss-ldap and other scheme that uses network directory for user. To make use of pam_mkhomedir, you would usually have to edit /etc/pam.d/common-session. Integration with pam-auth-update would be much better. Attached is a pam-config profile for pam_mkdir. It default to not enabling pam_mkhomedir, as it is not required in the common case. Please consider adding it to libpam-runtime.

[michael perigard (overprescribed)]

integration with pam-auth-update would be great, but privilege separation in sshd turned on by default in ubuntu would cause this to fail. I'm open to suggestions - I'm about to turn privilege separation off because I can't find a better, simple home directory creation solution, and I'd rather try to keep sshd up to date and on a non-standard port than create a separate user with root privileges for ldap-account-manager, or any of the other solutions Ive found to auto-create home directories when adding users to an ldap-auth'd system.

[Tamas Papp (tompos)]

It works fine with default sshd configuration.
What do you mean 'it would fail'?