On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 2:43 PM Gustavo Rios <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> I need to share home directory along a set o shell acount servers, i.e., 4
> servers. I was thinking about using nis and amd. Is amd relevant yet ? Are
> there alternatives?
>
One obvious alternative to using the auto-mount daemon (amd) is to
statically mount the home directory filesystems on each server. This
entirely avoids all the bother of configuring amd (notably maintaining the
mapping file and keeping it synced), and is trivially simple if all your
home directories are stored on a single server.
If the home directories are distributed among the shell account servers,
that's straightforward as well. On server 1 you might have:
{DUID1}.h /u1 ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
server2:/u2 /u2 nfs rw,nodev,nosuid 0 0
server3:/u3 /u3 nfs rw,nodev,nosuid 0 0
...
And on server 2 you might have:
server1:/u1 /u1 nfs rw,nodev,nosuid 0 0
{DUID2}.h /u2 ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
server3:/u3 /u3 nfs rw,nodev,nosuid 0 0
...
And so on.
-ken
