Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ittc!fpb From: fpb@ittc.wec.com (Frank P. Bresz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Setting up Home dirs... Message-ID: Date: 16 Sep 90 01:04:14 GMT References: <2422@dali> Sender: news@ittc.wec.com Organization: Westinghouse, ITTC, Pgh, PA. Lines: 58 In-reply-to: osyjm@caesar.cs.montana.edu's message of 14 Sep 90 14:38:13 GMT In article <2422@dali> osyjm@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//. I have abstracted this slightly. Every single user who wants a network account will get an account whose 'home' directory is /home/nfsmt/, 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/ it enables a visual difference between accounts which are network wide and those that area machine specific. -- | () () () | Frank P. Bresz | Westinghouse Electric Corporation | \ /\ / | fpb@ittc.wec.com | ITTC Simulators Department | \/ \/ | uunet!ittc!fpb | Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate. | ---------- | (412)733-6749 | My opinions are mine, WEC don't want 'em.