Clint Dilks wrote:
Theo Band wrote:
Hi
I use NIS om my network (CentOS4.6). When an update on a map occurs
(home directory changed in /etc/passwd for instance), I run make -C
/var/yp/ and check the result on a client. On the client I use "ypcat
passwd" and find indeed that the update has propagated (the clients
run ypbind service). On the client I have configured
/etc/nsswitch.conf with :
passwd: files nis
shadow: files nis
group: files nis
The problem is however that on the client, if I try to use the new
data, it still uses the old one. For instance "cd ~john" still
directs me to the old path instead of to the updated path (as
correctly reported by "ypcat passwd").
To solve it I need to restart the ypserv service on the nis server
for every change.
Does anyone now what could be the problem or where I should look?
Apparently the OS gets password and user info using another way than
the ypcat tool.
(ypserv-2.13-18,ypbind-1.17.2-13)
Thanks,
Theo
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Hi Theo,
As you are talking about the users homes I assume you are providing
this via something like NFS?
If so it is your autofs information that controls what home gets
mounted not the passwd information.
You can configure autofs to reference a NIS map. Normally I would
expect this to be something like auto_home. An entry in this file
might look like
<user> <server>:<nfs exported dir>:&
And you would have an entry in /etc/auto.master
/home auto.home
I hope this helps :)
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Just to clarify this post. The password file is still referenced eg if
you have a user bob on your system with a home dir set to /home/bob
(from the passwd file) autofs tells your system where to mount
/home/bob from rather than looking on local disk.
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