How to simulate user first login.

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My virtual machine has a setting that when the first time a user logs in, it creates a home directory for the user automatically if the user does not have a home directory.

In my script, I want to achieve: Log in as different users so that they all have home directory setup. But I’m not sure how to do it.

I tried to write this in my task:

  • name: Create home dir
    remote_user: testuser2
    shell: /usr/bin/whoami

But it threw an exception:

OpenSSH_5.9p1-hpn13v12 Debian-ts14, OpenSSL 0.9.8zc 15 Oct 2014
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug3: key names ok: [ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ssh-rsa,ssh-dss]
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 13: Applying options for *
debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master
ControlPath too long

While if I change the remote_user to a user that has already had a home directory in the machine, it will finish successfully.

2

Hi,

Not tested idea from a bus I’m going to work right now : try login into existing account and then try to sudo to new account.

Cheers,
Wawrzek

3

What about creating the user’s home directory when you create the user’s account? Will that not work? It would eliminate the need to perform the extra step of logging in as the user and then logging back out again.

4

For directory (LDAP, etc..) based authentication you can create the
home directory and copy the skel over to it. Validating permissions of
course.

5

Wouldn’t running su - USER -c true suffice?

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