Dave Howorth said the following on 04/13/2010 05:33 AM:
I've been mounting home directories from the server since the 80s on SunOS as Anton says. But in my case I've found that it's easier to diagnose problems with the network or with NFS or DNS servers if my desktop machine is able to run my normal session, albeit without my complete normal data.
SUN began (in the days of 3MHz Ethernet) with very minimalist machines. The even did swap over the net, which with a 3MHz link was a real killer. Soon we got local disk and enough binaries to do diagnostics. Thank you /etc/nsswitch ! Go read the docs. However it did rather upset things for admins when their local password got bumped by the new NIS password. However nsswitch can be a mixed blessing ... http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg13627.html <quote>
Alternatively, another way to approach it might be to create a pseudo-entry, as described previously, where your NIS data is encapsulated as a line in the local /etc/passwd file(s), and then put the two userids into a common, locally defined group; that plus appropriate group read-write-execute-search permissions would also allow them, again, to seamlessly share data.
When using YP back in 1986, one of my problems was engineers getting tired of YP server timeouts and map failures, using their root passwords to create local entries, and then getting frustrated when they changed their YP passwords, a few weeks later, and were unable to login as a result of local entries having precedence over remote entries. What was a hassle, then, can be, under certain circumstances, a valuable feature. </quote>
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