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). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org