Re: Dynamically creating users at login

[Harold Martin <cocoadev earthlink net>]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 07:28, Julian King wrote:
> > Thanks, I certianly appreciate your code and will treat it as GPL'd.
> > Could this be modified so that it would run a GUI user management tool?
> > I'm not sure what I would use (preferably something where users could
> > only be added instead of deleted).
> 
> pam_run will run anything that you tell it to.  If it is to run
> something graphical then naturally this process will need to know how to 
> get into the state where it can actually display things to screen - 
> depending on your setup this may be trivial, or it may be complex.
> 
> Also, naturally, you'd need to write this GUI.
> 
> > The idea is to make this as "user friendly" for windoze users as
> > possible.
> 
> I would have thought that the easiest thing would be for it to create
> the account on the fly without asking any questions, but I don't know the
> nature of the situation for you.
Exactly what I asked about in my original post.
It's still what I'd like to do, but I don't have enough knowledge of PAM
and the login process in general to do this.
If you could help me with this, that'd be even better :)

Thanks,
Harold