Hal Vaughan wrote:
I noticed, a few years ago, when I first set up an NIS server, that even though the NIS clients get the full password files, that doesn't mean home directories are automatically created for that user. I wrote my own Perl util that reads the passwd file with 'ypcat passwd', then gets the names, makes the home dirs, and chowns them. Now, while setting up new systems, I'm wondering: Is this a flaw in NIS, or what? How do others handle it? Is there something else to handle this I don't know about?
What you probably want is autofs (a.k.a. automounter). You specify /home as the mount point to watch and then tell the /etc/auto.home file where (on which server, IP, and so on) the home directories actually reside. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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