[SSSD-users] Re: Can I make SSSD do additional work with oddjobd?

[Orion Poplawski]

On 02/24/2016 11:39 AM, Patrice Peterson wrote:
>  Hey list,
>  
>  is there a way to have SSSD do additional work when creating a home
>  directory? I am using it in a HPC cluster context and I need to create a
>  user account in the batch system's database. I had a look at what
>  oddjobd could do, but from what I could tell, the PAM stack calls
>  oddjob's com.redhat.oddjob_mkhomedir method over D-Bus.
>  
>  Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but I
>  couldn't quite tell where else to post it. 
It calls the oddjob mkhomedirfor method, which in:
/etc/oddjobd.conf.d/oddjobd-mkhomedir.conf

is defined to run /usr/libexec/oddjob/mkhomedir:

        <method name="mkhomedirfor">
          <helper exec="/usr/libexec/oddjob/mkhomedir"
                  arguments="1"/>
          <allow user="root"/>
        </method>

I don't see much docs for that binary, but you could change that to be a
wrapper that did what you wanted.

Otherwise https://www.fedorahosted.org/oddjob/ is the upstream project, but
there isn't much there.

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