I'm using pam_mkhomedir to create home directories on the fly when a user logs in (using Winbind to authenticate to Active Directory). When the directories are created from /etc/skel tons of text is sent to the GDM login manager, showing what has been done. Is there a way to suppress this? I didn't find any parameters to pass to the library to suppress it's output, and I can't find any options in GDM to suppress text messages sent to the screen. I'm not even sure if I would suppress this through a parameter passed to PAM, or to the library itself, to GDM, or X, or something else? Any ideas?

Hi, try to add parameter "silent" to pam_mkhomedir module...

# grep mkhomedir /etc/pam.d/system-auth
session required pam_mkhomedir.so silent skel=/etc/skel umask=0022