On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:50:12PM -0700, Adam Megacz wrote:
> 
> Davor Ocelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So as far as the actual question goes, yes, there's no actual home directory
> > path saved anywhere; it is constructed on the fly by nss-ptdb for any user,
> > by taking their username and printing /afs/hcoop/user/u/us/username ...
> 
> FWIW, I consider this a feature.

For the most part ;) However, no place to store any other info
(Gecos, shell, ...) is inconvenient.

> Of note, yesterday the upstream author of libnss-ptdb folded this
> change into the main codebase, although he uses the file ~/.loginshell
> and I think he expects it to be a symlink rather than a text file.  We
> should probably move to his version at some point.

Luckily, nothing in our services' setup depends on this, so this 
doesn't cause any change.

It would be great, however, if you would update nss-ptdb Debian package
in time, so that newly migrated users can straightforwardly be told
to use ~/.loginshell symlink .

For an extra bonus, when migrating users, we can take the effort of
creating their ~/.loginshell as symlink to their shell from fyodor..

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