On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > ... and put each user in the auto.home NIS map.
>
> each user? that's a lot of admin overhead on a site with lots of
> users. why not just use a wildcard? eg:
>
> [root@fogarty XF4]# ypcat -k auto.home
> * -async,usrquota hibernia:/home/&
>
As long as all users are coming off of node hibernia, you're OK with such
a wildcard. If you have many nodes serving up user directories it won't
work, will it? Will autofs keep trying the entries until it finds a hit?
For example, let's say you have two servers. The other is named elysium
and it serves up half the users, hibernia the other half. Could you have
* -async,usrquota hibernia:/home/&
* -async,usrquota elysium:/home/&
as your two auto.home entries and have things work properly?
hasta pronto,
Rich
