NIS client-- different home dirs

[Anil C. Sedha]

Mike,

Simple solution.

Since you have NIS working fine..

In your master server, /home/u->/home/newsystem/users

If you didn't understand what i tried to say above - Make a link in your home directory to point to the new home directory on the other server from your master server in a seperate directory. This way, the user will have the home directory on the other server instead of the master server.

Where u -> will be user name.

If you get it great, if you don't let me know.

Regards,
Anil (Don't forget the points if this helps you)

[Donald Kok]

Hi Mike,

So you want to have the same uid/passwd on all unix machines. If these users are also on an Windows domain, you can use the NTLM-pam module. This way your passwords are checked by the paswordserver on the NT/2000 domain.

I did this, and I never have to bother about the passwords again. Info found f.i. on http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8724-90011/B8724-90011_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8724-90011/00/00/35-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8724-90011/00/00/35-toc.html&searchterms=pam&queryid=20020624-023645

Goodluck
Donald

[Mike King_7]

Thanks, Clay.
I tried what you suggested with the nsswitch.conf file and all works as I wish.