Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:37:13 +1000 From: "Neeraj Arora" <Neeraj.Arora@ems.rmit.edu.au> To: <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, "Neeraj Arora" <Neeraj.Arora@ems.rmit.edu.au>, <amr@fccn.pt> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sincronize /etc/passwd and /etc/yp/passwd.master Message-ID: <seaef094.062@ems.rmit.edu.au>
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Hmm...needed to search the trash for your original post before replying is = it...??? And I did it....I think amidst the replies I got the impression that you = werent able to direct the home directory to the correct one when the = machine was not the nis server machine. Well cleared up now... Sorry about that...:^) So is your problem solved??? Or would you like to state it again in a = clean way (your problem (undeleted) minus all the replies that have been = made by now...:^) Regards, Neeraj >>> =C2ngelo Rodrigues <amr@fccn.pt> 04/29/03 20:59 PM >>> Hi, I think you have made a series confusion!!! I don't want to use any = file=20 server, I just want to use a centralized system of login/password. Please, read all messages to understand all point. Regards, On Tuesday 29 April 2003 10:31, Neeraj Arora wrote: > Please refer to the email below (that I am replying to) before reading = what > I write... > > /var/yp/master.passwd is not to be a softlink or symbolic link to > /etc/master.passwd According the documentation (handbook I think), > /var/yp/master.passwd is a copy of /etc/master.passwd without the root, > system and one user who is also the member of group wheel. > > One can use amd (automount daemon) to have all users have their home > directories in /home, while the directories inside /home are themselves > mounted when needed according to the amd map supplied by nis. On the > fileserver or the nfs server system, one could have different directories= > for different machines depending on any one or a combination of the > os/hostname/ipaddress/network/etc. of the mounting machine. > > So if the fileserver had /allhomedirs and in that had ./linux, and > ./freebsd and in each of them ./tom ./dick and ./harry; a linux client > would end up providing /allhomedirs/linux/<user> at /home/<user> while a > freebsd client would do the same by providing /allhomedirs/freebsd/<user>= > at /home/<user>. > > This will allow the entries in the /var/yp/master.passwd and /var/yp/pass= wd > to remain untouched when produced as nis maps for different clients/hosts= . > Same can be done by mounting the appropriate shell binary from a = fileserver > using amd maps while the path for the shell can still remain only > /path/shell or /usr/local/bin/bash; for linux clients the > /usr/local/whatever is mounted from /allusrlocaldirs/linux/whatever and = for > freebsd it is mounted from /allusrlocaldirs/freebsd/whatever. > > One might not need to overwrite any field produced by nis on a client > machine. > > Personally I feel, the less the configuration differences in different > client machines, the better. > > Hope I havent got off the point completely...:-\ > > Regards, > Neeraj > > >>> =C2ngelo Rodrigues <amr@fccn.pt> 04/29/03 20:08 PM >>> > > 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 > softlink to /etc/master.passwd, the server's root user will be the same > in the client so, the client won't have any local user. This can cause > 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 -----------------------------------------------------
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