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List:       mandrake-expert
Subject:    Re: [expert] Auto-creating home directories when using NIS
From:       Juan Luis Baptiste <juancho () phreaker ! net>
Date:       2004-05-30 20:57:49
Message-ID: 200405301557.51518.juancho () phreaker ! net
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On Sunday 30 May 2004 10:54, Mike Noble wrote:
> Juan Luis Baptiste wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I just setup a NIS server and some clients. Everything it's ok, the users
> > in the NIS server can authenticate from any of the clients with the NIS
> > server. But, obviously, when I authenticate in one of the clients
> > machines to the NIS server, the home directory of the user I'm using to
> > authenticate doesn't exist locally in the client, so I'm getting an error
> > that the user home directory doesn't exist. Is there a way to make the
> > home directory to be created automatically when the user logs in for the
> > first time in any of the clients machines? because what's the point of
> > using NIS if every time you add a new user you have to go to all the
> > clients the machines and create it's home dir manually :-P.
> >
> >
>
> Use autofs this way the home directory will be auto mounted from the
> server.
>

I already thought on that, what I was looking for was a way to have the home 
directories locally in each machine.

Anyway, how would be the home automounted when the user logs in?


Cheers,
-- 
Juan Luis Baptiste
http://www.merlinux.org
http://knetworkconf.sf.net


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