From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 29 03:06:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C136137B401 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 03:06:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saturno.fccn.pt (saturno.fccn.pt [193.136.7.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D59D43FAF for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 03:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amr@fccn.pt) Received: (qmail 70416 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2003 10:06:22 -0000 Received: from hyperion.fccn.pt (193.136.7.70) by saturno.fccn.pt with SMTP; 29 Apr 2003 10:06:22 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: =?iso-8859-1?q?=C2ngelo=20Rodrigues?= Organization: Fccn To: Dan Nelson Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:06:18 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200304281535.38756.amr@fccn.pt> <200304281737.30340.amr@fccn.pt> <20030428173944.GM22259@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030428173944.GM22259@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200304291106.18869.amr@fccn.pt> cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sincronize /etc/passwd and /etc/yp/passwd.master X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: amr@fccn.pt List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:06:27 -0000 On Monday 28 April 2003 17:39, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 28), ^Angelo Rodrigues said: > > On Monday 28 April 2003 16:22, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 05:06:36PM +0000, ^Angelo Rodrigues wrote: > > > > On Monday 28 April 2003 15:48, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > > 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 :) > > Standardizing the name of the homedir would make your job a lot easier. > Can you make symlinks in /home so that every user whose homedir is in > /homeapp can use /home/user also? Then the user's home is > "/home/user" no matter what machine he logs into. But there's still a little problem... As the /var/yp/master.passwd is a=20 softlink to /etc/master.passwd, the server's root user will be the same=20 in the client so, the client won't have any local user. This can cause=20 some series problems when the network is down. The client machine should have at least some local users to avoid this kind of problem. Regards, --=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 -----------------------------------------------------