Package: libpam-mklocaluser (0.18+deb12u1)

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Configure PAM to create a local user if it does not exist already

When the user logs in for the first time, a local POSIX user account is created in /etc/passwd, a primary group is created in /etc/group, and a local home directory is created in /home.

This is useful on roaming computers when the password is set up to be cached by, for example, libpam-ccreds or sssd to allow login without network connectivity using the password provided by a network authentication service like Kerberos or LDAP.

Other than the caching mechanisms of libpam-ccreds or libpam-sssd / libnss-sssd, the libpam-mklocaluser approach makes the LDAP accounts more persistent on the roaming workstation and robust again credentials cache deletions and such.

The pam_mklocaluser PAM module additionally allows for execution of additional hook scripts when users log in to such a roaming computer for the first time.

Other Packages Related to libpam-mklocaluser

• dep: libpam-python

  Enables PAM modules to be written in Python

• dep: python3

  interactive high-level object-oriented language (default python3 version)

• sug: libpam-ccreds

  Pam module to cache authentication credentials

  or libpam-sss

  Pam module for the System Security Services Daemon

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