Users without home directory

[Alex Lavrov.]

Hello,

I have a quick question. When I use NIS, user that was declared on boxA now can login also on boxB, because I have merged passwd file in NIS. How can I restrict user, to login only on boxA? Is there nay flag that I can switch on to make user login only on the box where it has home directory?

Alex.

[Pete Randall]

Alex,

How about setting up a test in /etc/profile that would bounce them if this wasn't the correct server?


Pete

[Alex Lavrov.]

Ofcourse some custom script can be made, but I wonder if there is "built-in" option to do it.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
Have not heard about that but, maybe you could do a modification to the users login script. Test for the home directory, if fails, logout.

[Leif Halvarsson_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,
Found a thread about this:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=792908

[Alex Lavrov.]

Leif, it's gonna be a bit problem, because user does not have a home directory, so it does not have a login script either.

If the only option is to make a script, then it has to be in /etc/profile, because it's the only thing executed for the user that does not have a home directory.

Alex.

[Alex Lavrov.]

Yep, that what I was looking for, strange I didn't find it, because I searched the forums ... :\


I heard about somthing in /etc, but was not sure, what I'm looking for.


Thanx Leif!