home directory fail-over using automount ?

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

I have my nfs shares set-up to automount to

/home/nfs4/<username>

and then that directory name is used in the /etc/passwd file.

What i'd like to do is have it use /home/<username> in the event it can't see the nfs server.

it seems like some automount trickery might be possible if, for example, nfs mount didn't work it would actually mount /home/<username> on /home/nfs4/<username>.

Haven't found a way to do this, probably because it's a horrible hack, or not possible and I should probably be trying to do this some other way.

Any suggestions ?

Thank you,

Brian