[KLUG Members] FC equivalent of Netware

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I have the chance to have a room of FC4 boxes at work, but I have to
> be able to do something similar to Netware to be able to login.
> Our current XP ghost image works by setting up transient users based
> on verification though a Netware server. This creates a temporary user
> which allows anyone to read from C: and write to D: (unless they're a
> member of staff who can write some things to C:).

What do you need to authenticate against?

> Is there any way to do this under FC? I would guess that a temporary
> user would be set up under /home and their space removed when they log
> out. It would be unfortunate to miss out on this.

Sure, PAM will do all this for you.  There is a pam_mkhomedir (or some
such) that will create home directories on the fly, and I believe copy
over the contents of a skeleton directory. (I haven't used this in a
long time).