How to automount NIS account's home dir to a different location?

chickenjoy · 01-17-2010, 01:48 AM

Hi,

### problem:

Quote:

user account on NIS server: user
Home dir as set in /etc/passwd: /home/user

proposed mountpoint for NIS client home dir for 'user': /shared/home/user

auto mounting to /home/user works fine
BUT if i want to automount to different location; it still looks for /home/user directory to mount to. So I get an error and i get directed to the '/' dir.
Is there someway for me to edit the passwd file that is being exported by the NIS server? because if I change the local passwd of the user in the NIS server then he wont be able to see his home dir when logging in locally. (although this does seem to be a good idea; since he wont need to login directly into the NIS server....)

Thanks!

arizonagroovejet · 01-17-2010, 05:01 AM

How about mounting it at /home/user on the client but also having it accessible at /shared/home/user?

As root on the client

Code:

$ mkdir /shared
$ ln -s /home /shared/home

chickenjoy · 01-17-2010, 06:49 AM

ahhh soft links... thats very possible. Its a workaround but not the solution. thanks arizonagroovejet!

jlinkels · 01-17-2010, 07:57 AM

On the box which is the NIS master server you can modify the user settings. If you use adduser you can change the home directory. Man adduser is more accurate than I am, so check that.

NIS intercepts adduser calls so the YP databases are updated whenever you run adduser. If that doesn't work, run make in /var/lib/yp. You might also have to restart NIS on the server.

You must login again on the client for the changes to propgate.

jlinkels