Re: restrict login

No, these users are "ldap usersers", so they don't have a local
account, no entry in the /etc/passwd.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Woogie <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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