Joe Sloan wrote:
James Knott wrote:
I'm well aware of mounting a common /home via NFS, but was curious about
what would happen with NIS, if someone logged in, without a /home directory.
That depends on the OS and security settings, but by default on the
linux distros I've used, they get "/" as ahome directory, and no rights
to modify it. A very unsatisfying shell session IOW.
When I was a student in the 1980's, the Purdue Engineering
Computer Network (http:ecn.purdue.edu) had a homegrown
command called "ns" on the 4.3BSD machines.
Usage: ns host command [args...]
So, from ed machine, I could do work on ec like this:
ed$ ns ec csh -i
This would give me an interactive /bin/csh on ec.
The first thing to do would be to cd to /tmp, so
that the process would have a place to read/write
files.
I took advantage of this (plus the fact that on
the PDP-11 machines, the ns connection would
lose my user ID) to carry out an e-mail practical
joke. (I won't go into it here).
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