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Date:      Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:03:52 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        "Galella, Anthony" <anthony.galella@intel.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: home directories on NIS?
Message-ID:  <20020304230352.GA1095@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <59F55CE047A6D51196360002A534A4AC370386@pysmsx102.py.intel.com>
References:  <59F55CE047A6D51196360002A534A4AC370386@pysmsx102.py.intel.com>

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In the last episode (Mar 04), Galella, Anthony said:
> I'm running FBSD4.5-Release as an NIS slave (serving Redhat Linux
> clients) The NIS master and other slaves are running Solaris 8.  The
> NIS usernames are configured with home directories in the format
> /users/[username]
> 
> Fbsd uses /usr/home/[username] as the home directories.
> Redhat uses /home/[username] as the home directories.

Ideally, an NIS user should have a single home-dir, accessible via NFS
from any NIS client.

If this is not your case (i.e. each system has a separate homedir for
each NIS user), just create a /user symlink on each client system that
points to /usr/home or /home, depending on the OS.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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