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This is for RHEL based distros, specifically Fedora 43+:

1. Check if oddjob and oddjob-mkhomedir is installed.
2. Run as root: authselect enable-feature with-mkhomedir
3. Enable oddjobd. Run as root: systemctl enable --now oddjobd.service