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+PAM Make Home Dir module
+
+This module will create a users home directory if it does not exist
+when the session begins. This allows users to be present in central
+database (such as nis, kerb or ldap) without using a distributed
+file system or pre-creating a large number of directories.
+
+Here is a sample /etc/pam.d/login file:
+
+ auth requisite pam_securetty.so
+ auth sufficient pam_ldap.so
+ auth required pam_unix.so
+ auth optional pam_group.so
+ auth optional pam_mail.so
+ account requisite pam_time.so
+ account sufficient pam_ldap.so
+ account required pam_unix.so
+ session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0022
+ session required pam_unix.so
+ session optional pam_lastlog.so
+ password required pam_unix.so
+
+Released under the GNU LGPL version 2 or later
+Originally written by Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Feb 1999
+