Re: Dynamically creating users at login
- From: George <jirka 5z com>
- To: Harold Martin <cocoadev earthlink net>
- Cc: Julian King <jpk28 cus cam ac uk>, gdm sunsite dk
- Subject: Re: Dynamically creating users at login
- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 09:37:26 -0700
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:51:10AM -0700, Harold Martin wrote:
> 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?
I'm not aware of any PAM module that does this for the local unix pwd
database. But I suppose someone could modify the pam_unix module to
just run useradd and try again.
George
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George <jirka 5z com>
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