Am 07.02.2017 um 23:14 schrieb Nable:
When x2godbadmin is used with a postgres database, and the user name given doesn't yet have a home directory, it creates this home directory. I've thought that creation of home directories is a task for useradd (for local users) or pam_mkhomedir from libpam-modules (in case of centralized database of network logins) and there may be even more existing alternatives. Should this non-trivial code be implemented once again in X2Go tools instead of trying to keep things closer to a UNIX-way?
Well, there already is code in there that is doing it - it just does it wrong in this particular case. Of course, we could argue that the entire piece of code should be removed - but how would you handle things in this particular case? Having no /home/<username> is something that is most likely to happen with non-local accounts. pam_mkhomedir fixes this and creates it on the spot - IF, and only IF the user logs in. x2godbadmin, however, needs to be run
- on the x2goserver
- by root
- before the user logs in
-> chicken and egg.
So - to expand this bug - what we'd need is some piece of code that does what pam_mkhomedir does (not only create the directory and set ownership/permissions, *but also* populate it with the contents of /etc/skel) - but for a user other than the one that's currently logged in. Are you aware of anything that does that and that we could call?
-Stefan
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