[Bug 1957024] [NEW] pam-mkhomedir does not honor private home directories

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As reported in https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/private-home-directories-
for-ubuntu-21-04-onwards/19533/13:

A common situation is to have a central set of users (e.g. in LDAP) and
use pam_mkhomedir.so to create the home directory when the user first
logs in.

These changes do not cover this situation. The default configuration of
pam_mkhomedir.so will result in a home directory created with 0755
permissions.

To make pam_mkhomedir.so create a home directory by default with
permissions consistent with the other tools then a umask argument can be
added to the pam_mkhomedir.so module in the file /usr/share/pam-
configs/mkhomedir. I believe this would have to be done before enabling
the module. The file is part of the libpam-modules package.

** Affects: pam (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Ponnuvel Palaniyappan (pponnuvel)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: patch
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pam-mkhomedir does not honor private home directories
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1957024
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