Comment 6 for bug 956848

In recent versions there's an /sbin/mkhomedir_helper that's supposed to do the directory creation work; but the manpage indicates that it exists in support of selinux rather than for this issue. You *may* be able to work around the problem locally by running 'sudo chmod u+s /sbin/mkhomedir_helper', but I can't guarantee that this is secure. We'll have to look into whether it's safe to make this helper suid-root in the package.