Buchan Milne wrote: > FACORAT Fabrice wrote: >> Le lun 04/08/2003 � 03:15, Ken Thompson a �crit : > >> But it's a good point. I set up several workstation and /home is an NFS >> share. So as during isntall I can't specify NFS share, I have to log >> with the user with a local account, and the only one is ... root. Or >> else I have to manually edit fstab or launch diskdrake in console ... > > Well, then you must be using LDAP or NIS, so you should put automount > maps in LDAP or NIS, and drakauth should add nis/ldap to the automount > line of /etc/nsswitch.conf (which I will try and look at today). > > Then, you *never* have to worry about NFS mounts, they will be > automatic. You see, instead of making it easy for a user to log in as > root to do tasks, we must remove the necessity for them to do the tasks ...
Well luckily one can get to a console during DrakX so you can get your automounter maps set before first boot. Yes, putting those maps in LDAP or NIS is nice, but not always feasible. In my sysadmin job in college, the maps I had in NIS mounted the NFS through CacheFS, which is a Solaris-only feature (it's been discussed a couple times on lkml but never implemented), and it was a mixed Linux/Solaris network.
