hi suresh
for 400 users ??? i think its time to centralize /home....
probably have two /home file servers
( we'll worry about syncing data separately )
( we'll worry about backup of /home separately...
all other pcs automounts home1:/home or home2:/home....
for login passwd stuff....use NFS as rich suggests ??
or you'd have to copy/enter passwd info for each user
in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow ( bad idea )
on each home server....don't forget to export the directory
for exporting/reading/writing by the other server
/etc/export
on each clients...how many clients do you have and does
each of the 400 login into a few machines or 400 machines
that automounts home:/home/<user> ???
answer would vary ??
for each client....i'd do:
a. /etc/auto.master
/.autofs /etc/auto.home --timeout 600
b. /etc/auto.home
home -fstype=nfs[,other options] home1:/home
c. fix some stuff
cd / ; mv /home /home.org
cd / ; ln /.autofs /home
this way....all 400 users are maintained on home:/home
and their login passwd is done with yp
their home dir is automounted at any client machine
- problem is if the home server dies...all 400 people is dead...
- if the yp server dies....all 400 people is dead...
have fun
alvin
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Rich McClellan wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Suresh Kumar. R wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. Is it that I should have one entry corresponding
> > to each student in the auto.home ? I have more than 400 students, so
> > is there any better alternatives?
> >
>
> If you are going to have them on just one or two machines, it is probably
> best to not have individual entries for the students. Maybe you don't
> even need to use autofs? Why not use plain NFS; chances are good that the
> disk will always be mounted with 400 students and autofs. If you have
> multiple servers with people moving around it is nice to have an entry for
> each student in auto.home.
>
> You could also do something like:
> foreach i (`cat /etc/passwd|cut -d : -f 1`)
> echo "$i -hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 server1:/home/$i" >> auto.home
>
> (foreach is a tcsh thing)
> to create each entry in auto.home (don't forget to remove the entries for
> root, admin, etc.).
>
> later,
> Rich
>
