Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:01:59 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/165780: pw(8) should have a hook for home directory creation Message-ID: <201203061701.q26H1xZP073913@zfsnfs.csail.mit.edu> Resent-Message-ID: <201203061710.q26HABLJ014853@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 165780 >Category: bin >Synopsis: pw(8) should have a hook for home directory creation >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 06 17:10:10 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Garrett Wollman >Release: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE amd64 >Organization: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab >Environment: System: FreeBSD zfsnfs.csail.mit.edu 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #3 r232145M: Sun Feb 26 20:00:10 EST 2012 wollman@zfsnfs.csail.mit.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZFSNFS amd64 >Description: pw(8) will always use mkdir(2) to create home directories. In some situations, this is inappropriate, and it should be possible for the administrator to configure a hook script that is called instead. Such a script might be used, for example, to automatically create a new ZFS dataset for each new home directory, in accordance with recommended practice on ZFS. >How-To-Repeat: Read pw(8). Examine the code in pw_user.c. Be sad. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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