On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Lynette Bellini wrote:
# > ypcat -k auto.master /home auto.home -nosuid,noquota
Mine looks like:
# ypcat -k auto.master +auto_master [snip]
Isn't this a circular definition? This doesn't look good to me. Does this setup work at all?? We're now talking about the server side setup. On the NIS server you usually have the source files (i.e. the actual master map files) in /var/yp/ypfiles or /var/yp/src or whatever. This is usually done so that you can use NIS to keep ordinary users away from your servers. The directory typically contains something like auto.home auto.master auto.net group hosts netgroup networks passwd protocols rpc services This is (more or less) the contents of this directory on my server; YMMV. For example, if you are going to add a new user, you have to add an entry to /var/yp/<whatever>/passwd and run make so that the updated passwd map gets pushed to the clients. The command `ypcat passwd` on a client will then return the contents of /var/yp/<whatever>/passwd on the server. Likewise, the command `ypcat -k auto.master` on a client will return the contents of /var/yp/<whatever>/auto.master, and so on. The auto.master file will define the top mount points, so in my case the file looks like this: /net auto.net -nosuid,noquota /home auto.home -nosuid,noquota This works if the NIS server runs Linux or HP-UX. Because you have a Solaris server, you may need to have /net auto_net -nosuid,noquota /home auto_home -nosuid,noquota instead. You'll just have to experiment with '.' vs '_'. The files defines the top mount points and then tells which map specify the contents below the top points. So if auto.master on your server contains "+auto_master", then I don't see how this can work whatsoever. (But then again, I don't know everything about NIS. I have just made a setup that works well for me. ;-) )
Mine looks like:
# ypcat -k auto.home +auto_home projects www:/export/projects listserv moby:/export/newhome/listserv
Like I said for auto.master, get rid of the "+auto_home" line in /var/yp/<whatever>/auto.home . And some mount options for you directories is probably a Good Thing (tm), e.g. "-rw,intr,nosuid,noquota" or whatever you want. Does this help? ---J.T.U. /==================================================================\ | Jon Trygve Utne |e-mail: jont@ii.uib.no | | Department of Informatics | Jon.Utne@mi.uib.no | | University of Bergen, Norway | Jon.Utne@student.uib.no | | Tlf(work) +47 55 58 82 95 |"Smith & Wesson: The original| | URL: http://www.ii.uib.no/~jont | point and click interface" | \==================================================================/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/