How to change dir if missing the user home directory

[colombog]

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If a user xxxx login and the xxxx home directory is missing, the system display the message:
<<No directory found /home/xxxx. Logging in with home="/".>>
What to do if I wish to chroot the user to a directory different from "/" ?
I tried the keyword "DEFAULT_HOME no" in the /etc/login.defs, but it doesn't work. My distro (RedHat 9.C) uses PAM (/etc/pam.d). Is there a way to instruct PAM to use a default_home directory other than "/" ?.
Thanks

[kkubasik]

it looks like you need to create a home directory for xxxx, make one, and you should be fine

mkdir /home/xxxx

logout and login, see what happens, post any errors hear.

[dan@george]

Also, if you want to set your user's home directory to something other than /home/xxxx, you can edit the /etc/passwd file as root and change it there. You'll find a line that looks like this:

xxxx:x:1000:1000::/home/xxxx/:/bin/bash

which you can change to, for instance,

xxxx:x:1000:1000::/etc/pr0n/:/bin/bash

to change the user xxxx's home directory to /etc/pr0n/.

[kkubasik]

hahaha
dan@needstogetsome

[colombog]

I'sorry, I wasn't accurate in my question. The problem is that I want to manage the event when the home directory is missing, for instance when one uses smb and winbind to authenticate via NT domain controller. The user does't have a record in the passwd file and so no home directory. You can create the home directory for some users but not for all (the NT or AD domain users may be hundreds). So the problem is to manage some incoming domain users to a particular default home dir (with restricted or no access, say /home/dummy) or to invalidate the login process and deny the login. I didn't found anything describing how to manage this event (I tried with PAM manuals and other). Someone has other ideas?
Thanks in advance

[kkubasik]

I think you might want to just create smb groups, and link them to a folder. (sorry i don't have the specifics on how to do this). it sounds like you want most people who log on to just be directed to one shared folder. There is a far easier way to do that im smb. You can just share a folder and make the folder's authentication mode 'user'. this allows anyone with an account to access it.