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Re: Importing users and their home-directories via NIS from a server
ok. then i understand you have a YP server already running, which is
good.
now, you should create in the source dir of the YP a file called
"passwd" (for discovering what's your source dir, you should
look at the Makefile, i think it should be /var/yp/Makefile). This should
be your passwords file. If you also use shadow then you should put the
file too, but it losses it's security, unless you use NIS+ (which i never
worked with, and it's harder to configure).
You should edit your YP Makefile to compile the passwd map. Look at it,
and try to understand it. (i can't explain it here, because i don't have
YP at home, so i don't have refernces to look at)
Now to make you home dirs be shared, first share them with nfs
ofcourse.
Now, you should do one of the following things:
or update /etc/vfstab manually to mount /home
or use the automounter (look at /etc/init.d/autofs for seeing how it
works)
i would recommend the first options if you never worked with
automounter.
Now, to make the clients be aware of the passwords which is supplied from
the YP server, first you have to bind the to the YPserver (ofcourse).
Now, edit the file "/etc/nsswitch.conf" here, in the line about
"passwd" write it like this:
passwd nis files
I hope this will help,
Noam
At 14:16 23/08/2001 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Noam Meltzer
wrote:
> in other words, you want your yp server to distribute maps for
passwords
> and mounts, and share the home dirs with NFS, am I right?
>
Yes. Now, what should I do to achieve it?
Regards,
Shlomi
Fish
>
>
> At 14:05 22/08/2001 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> >We have a Solaris NIS server, and we wish to have several SPARC
linux
> >workstations that will import its users and (assuming the user
has logged
> >in) the user home-directory.
> >
> >We do not want to define the user on the local machine by means
of
> >/etc/passwd and friends.
> >
> >How can this be done?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> > Shlomi
Fish
> >
> >
> >
>
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