[Finn-Arne Johansen] > The reason for this is that lwat is actually running as www-data, > who doesn't have the permissions to create a homedirectory for the > user. lwat could of course assume that the password you gave also > is the root-password, and try to create the users homedirectory. But > maybe lwat is not even running on the same machine as the > fileserver, and maybe the fileserver is not allowing > ssh-access. That is why it's set up as a cron-job.
An alternative is to implement some notification system from the www-data process to a process with the privileges required to create home directories. For localhost messages a unix socket could be used, and for remote host connections either IP or some proxy could be used. Not sure if such system exist already, or if a new protocol would have to be specified for this. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
