Re: restrict login

Do users who have home directories set up also have an entry in
/etc/passwd? If so, you could use the pam_localuser module to restrict
access to users who are in /etc/passwd. It could be a simple cron-job
to sync the /home/* directories with /etc/passwd entries.
pam_localuser can also read from a specified file other than
/etc/passwd, if you don't want to be messing around with it.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Dumitru Ciobanu
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I was wondering if anybody knows of a way of restricting logins for
> users that don't have a home directory setup.
> This is happening in an ldap environment (the linux boxes are ldap
> clients for Active Directory). We are running RHEL 5.5 and RedHat
> support has no clue if it's possible.
> Right know if the user does not have a home directory (or just bad
> permissions) it gets logged in and lands in /.
> In HP-UX for example one can tweak that through /etc/default/security.
> I'm looking for something similar in Linux or maybe some fancy pam module.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dumitru
>
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