Setting up Home dirs...
Frank P. Bresz
fpb at ittc.wec.com
Sun Sep 16 11:04:14 AEST 1990
In article <2422 at dali> osyjm at caesar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>How are other admin's setting up users home directories on a wide variety of
>machines? Does each user have a home dir on each "logically" related
>set of machines? Other ways?
>I've been playing with automount under Ultrix 4.0, but it doesn't seem to
>stand up to a lot of pounding... How about using amd?
>I've looked at Project Athena, but that's just a tad on the overkill side of
>things for my needs...
>Anyway, I'm just looking for alternatives to how I do it now... E-mail or
>post replies, and I'll post a summary if demand warrants.
I for one am using the automounter. SunOS 4.0.3 and now SunOS 4.1
seem to do a fairly reasonable job of handling automounting. I haven't
played with it much to tune the timeouts and such. I really should because
I have noticed a few problems.
Anyway Sun seems to support the theory that users 'home' accounts
belong in /home. Also I attended a class at Sun (before they really
entrenched the automounter) which suggested making home accounts be in
/home/<machine>/<user>. I have abstracted this slightly. Every single
user who wants a network account will get an account whose 'home' directory
is /home/nfsmt/<user>, nfsmt being a handle for NFS mount point. Then in
the auto mount maps I have each user mapped accordingly. Here are some
relevant pieces of my auto.master and auto.home files.
/etc/auto.master
/home/nfsmt auto.home -intr,nosuid
/emacs auto.emacs -intr,nosuid
/etc/auto.home
fpb kirin:/home/kirin/fpb
rklatt kirin:/home/kirin/rklatt
mance ittc:/home/ittc/mance
silverio ittc:/home/ittc/silverio
inslib ittc:/home/ittc2/inslib
ket ittc:/home/ittc1/ket
gdelucia ittc:/home/ittc3/gdelucia
Notice that this allows all users to have very similar looking accounts.
Yet be scattered over various machines and disks rather easily. 1 of the
reasons I use /home/nfsmt and not just /home is that I also have to support
certain accounts on machines which must act in a certain way in our production
environment. Which basically is for non-computer types. This allows them
to log in as a specfic user and do only what they need to do. Anyway these
accounts I have in NIS(YP) as /home/<acct> it enables a visual difference
between accounts which are network wide and those that area machine
specific.
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