Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:37:30 +0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?=C2ngelo=20Rodrigues?= <amr@fccn.pt> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sincronize /etc/passwd and /etc/yp/passwd.master Message-ID: <200304281737.30340.amr@fccn.pt> In-Reply-To: <20030428162200.GC83968@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <200304281535.38756.amr@fccn.pt> <200304281706.37002.amr@fccn.pt> <20030428162200.GC83968@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Monday 28 April 2003 16:22, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 05:06:36PM +0000, =C2ngelo Rodrigues wrote: > > On Monday 28 April 2003 15:48, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > In the last episode (Apr 28), ^Angelo Rodrigues said: > > > > On Monday 28 April 2003 15:16, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, [iso-8859-1] ^Angelo Rodrigues wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to find an effective way to sincronize > > > > > > /etc/passwd.master and /etc/yp/passwd.master (at the same tim= e) > > > > > > without having to force all local users to run two commands, > > > > > > passwd and yppasswd. Any ideia? > > > > > > > > > > a) > > > > > a simbolic link: /var/yp/master.passwd -> /etc/master.passwd > > > > > > > > > > b) change your /var/yp/Makefile to take /etc/master.passwd > > > > > instead of /var/yp/master.passwd > > > > > > > > Hmmm...but this will force the same home directory between the se= rver > > > > and the client. > > > > > > You want the same password; why wouldn't you want the same homedir = and > > > shell also? All our NIS users have their homedir set to > > > /net/homedirmachine/home/username. > > > > But my server users are distributed betwen /home and /homeapp and > > this method will force the same thing in the clients. > > You can selectively override part of a NIS password database entry by > using NIS magic tokens in the local passwd file --- see passwd(5). > For instance, user 'fred' might have home directory /home/fred in the > NIS database, but you can override that in a client machine to > /users/fred by putting: > > +fred::::::::/users/fred: > > into /etc/master.passwd on the client. All of the other fields are > inherited from the NIS database. This could be a solution :) > > =09Cheers, > > =09Matthew --=20 =C2ngelo Rodrigues - amr@fccn.pt=20 FCCN - Funda=E7=E3o para a Computa=E7=E3o Cient=EDfica Nacional Av. Brasil, 101 1700-066 Lisboa - Portugal Tel: +351 218440100 Fax: +351 218472167 -----------------------------------------------------
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