Re: Dynamically creating users at login

[Harold Martin <cocoadev earthlink net>]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 03:01, Julian King wrote:
> > Is there a way to use GDM to transparently create users at login if they
> > don't exist? 
> > I realize the security implications of this, but for the setup I'm
> > using, I feel this is the best way to go. 
> 
> We do this by using PAM - we authenticate against an Novell Server, 
> and create an account on the fly.
This sounds like it might work.
I don't have acess to any Novell stuff but I could set up a database
such as MySQL.
I don't really know anything about PAM, though.
Can you point me in the direction of some instructions on how to do
this?

Thanks,
Harold