Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3156 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Sloan wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>
> > I'm well aware of mounting a common /home via NFS, but was curious about
> > what would happen with NIS, if someone logged in, without a /home directory.
>
> That depends on the OS and security settings, but by default on the
> linux distros I've used, they get "/" as ahome directory, and no rights
> to modify it. A very unsatisfying shell session IOW.

When I was a student in the 1980's, the Purdue Engineering
Computer Network (http:ecn.purdue.edu) had a homegrown
command called "ns" on the 4.3BSD machines.

Usage:  ns host command [args...]

So, from ed machine, I could do work on ec like this:

ed$ ns ec csh -i

This would give me an interactive /bin/csh on ec.
The first thing to do would be to cd to /tmp, so
that the process would have a place to read/write
files.

I took advantage of this (plus the fact that on
the PDP-11 machines, the ns connection would
lose my user ID) to carry out an e-mail practical
joke.  (I won't go into it here).


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