NIS+ home directory question

[Penni Nussbaum]

If I set up a NIS+master and have dozems of clients, when a new user is created, other than NFS, how would the home directory be created on the clients (other than the old fashioned manual way)? NFS is not considered secure enough for user here.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Penni:

Unless you create a script for it, the answer is the old-fashioned way. The normal way to do this in an NIS/NIS+ environment is to have the home directories managed by the automounter. NIS then manages the automounter maps as well. Then no matter where the user logs in his home directory is still on one machine. In my old company we worked on many classified projects and this was never an issue with the military security guys.

[Penni Nussbaum]

Thank you. NFS cannot be installed here. They do not consider it secure enough. I think I will write a script that is kicked off in /.profile. When a user logs in and thier home directory is not present, the script will kick off (because they will default to /) and create it.