How to create home directories on the first login (using pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so)

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • External users (IDM/LDAP/AD) do not have a home directory.

  • After joining a RHEL machine to an AD domain using adcli, user can login using ssh successfully but during the first login the expected home directrory is never created

    [root@rhel7 ~]# ssh aduser@ADdomain@localhost
aduser@ADdomain@localhost's password: 
Last login: Fri Sep  1 14:54:31 2017
Could not chdir to home directory /home/ADdomain/aduser: No such file or directory
-bash-4.2$

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    • authconfig
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
    • authselect
  • pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so

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