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 Feb 1999