On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:13:23AM -0700, Adam Chlipala wrote: > Adam Megacz wrote: > > ln -s /afs/hcoop.net/common/etc/domtool /afs/hcoop.net/user/d/do/domtool > > > > Well, even _I_ could have done that before! :-D > > Is it the case that some aspect of the fancy AFS-UNIX integration > precludes giving users arbitrary home directories?
Yes. AM seemed to be a big fan of the libnss-ptdb, introduction of which was/is the source of a number of problems, some of which I fixed without even reporting on them... So as far as the actual question goes, yes, there's no actual home directory path saved anywhere; it is constructed on the fly by nss-ptdb for any user, by taking their username and printing /afs/hcoop/user/u/us/username ... Another thing that wasn't discussed is that there is likewise no way of saving user's shell information anywhere.. But this is a crucial problem that can't go without a remedy, so possible solutions (that AM must work out) will include either users creating ~/.shell with the name of their shell, or making themselves a member, of say, shell:bash or shell:zsh .. Currently, everyone's default shell is bash. -doc _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
