Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:22:00 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C2ngelo?= Rodrigues <amr@fccn.pt> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sincronize /etc/passwd and /etc/yp/passwd.master Message-ID: <20030428162200.GC83968@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <200304281706.37002.amr@fccn.pt> References: <200304281535.38756.amr@fccn.pt> <200304281636.31048.amr@fccn.pt> <20030428154800.GL22259@dan.emsphone.com> <200304281706.37002.amr@fccn.pt>
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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 time)
> > > > > 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 server
> > > 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.
>=20
> 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.
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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