Auto creation of user home directory in Linux Server

Issue : User Home directory not getting created automatically, during LDAP & AD authentication of users

Cause : pam_mkhomedir.so shared object is missing

Solution :

Step 1 :

[root@mail ~]# yum install -y pam_mkhomedir.so

[root@mail ~]# yum install -y oddjob-mkhomedir

[root@mail ~]# chkconfig oddjobd on
[root@mail ~]# service oddjobd start
Starting oddjobd:                                          [  OK  ]
[root@mail ~]# authconfig --enablemkhomedir --update
Starting Winbind services:                                 [  OK  ]
Starting oddjobd:                                          [  OK  ]
[root@mail ~]#


Step 2 :

Verify the home directory creation

login as: isvivek
isvivek@192.168.248.128's password:
Creating home directory for isvivek.
Last login: Thu May 30 12:59:17 2013 from 192.168.248.1
[isvivek@mail ~]$ pwd
/home/ISVIVEK/isvivek
[isvivek@mail ~]$


If still it doesn't work after above changes...

check and add the below entry in "/etc/pam.d/system-auth" & "/etc/pam.d/sshd" files,

session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0022

This will fix the issue... All the best !!