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Looks nice. That should exactly hint autofs to do something. I wl wait couple of days if somebody comes up with pam ideas, but yours is already good enough.
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Looks nice. That should exactly hint autofs to do something. I wl wait couple of days if somebody comes up with pam ideas, but yours is already good enough.

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I ended up using pam_exec and writing in C 'touch $HOME/.'<br />
Thank you for showing the right way ;)
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I ended up using pam_exec and writing in C 'touch $HOME/.'
Thank you for showing the right way ;)

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I have complex setup of nfs automounts and ldap. If automount of faraway user fails for whatever reason I would like to deny login for a user instead of starting useless $SHELL in / <br />
PS I know pam.d.
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I have complex setup of nfs automounts and ldap. If automount of faraway user fails for whatever reason I would like to deny login for a user instead of starting useless $SHELL in / 
PS I know pam.d.

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