Bug 81597

Summary:	Login not possible if HOME is not present
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdm	Reporter:	January Weiner <january>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jens-bugs.kde.org
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description January Weiner 2004-05-14 18:42:52 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

I hope this is a new issue.  Actually, it is not kdm, but even more general.

As far as I can tell, there is no possibility to log in with KDM when the HOME directory is not present. There should be a fallback - like, creating necessary links / files in the /tmp directory (which KDE uses anyway), and providing at least some basic functionality, so that users can e.g. browse / use config tools / whatever. 

We have a lot of students.  They are all authenticated by a LDAP, but some times the file server with their $HOME is not available or their $HOME is not yet set up.  KDE should be able to handle such situations.

Regards,
j.

Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2004-05-22 15:39:12 UTC

you can already do some sanity checks and/or emergency setup via various PAM modules and via the Xstartup script. kdm itself does not care for $HOME.

Comment 2 Oswald Buddenhagen 2005-09-15 20:18:34 UTC

*** Bug 110452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***