On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Suresh Kumar. R wrote:
> I have server1 and server2 containing the home directories and each
> server having the file systems fs11,fs12 etc. The file systems in
> server2 are fs21, fs22 ..
>
> I want the users home directories to be available as /home/$USER
> while his actual home directory would be in a filesystem fs21 or fs12.
>
> My questions
> 1. What should be the entry in the /etc/passwd
> 2. How is nis map used for this purpose
1. The same as before: the user's dir is specified as /home/$USER.
Client's, of course, have sparse passwd files with (optionally)
+::::::
as the last line of the file.
2. You'll use auto.master to specify (at least) the map auto.home.
auto.home will contain entries for each user and where their home dir
really resides. For example, user djuan's dir resides on server2, in dir
fs21. djuan's auto.home entry would look like:
djuan -hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 server2:/fs21/djuan
The entry for user directories would look like (from auto.master):
/home auto.home
Be very sure to remove auto.master and auto.home from the clients and
specify NIS for the appropraite sections of /etc/nsswitch.conf, but at
least:
automount: nis files
good luck,
Rich
