Bart Smaalders wrote:
How about just fixing it so that the automounter finds any home
directories in /etc/passwd and mounts those on demand?
When you create the user with useradd(1M) it sets the home dir to what
ever you ask for usually /home/user. The problem was creating the
directory rwith mkdir. Howeve useradd(1M) has the same problem when it
attempts to create the home dir in that case.
# useradd -m -d /home/alice alice
UX: useradd: ERROR: Unable to create the home directory: Operation not
applicable.
The "easy" way to do this might be to change the files repository case
to not have an auto_home managed, after all if you are using files for
the automount map in nsswitch.conf chances are the mounts are local
rather than NFS anyway. That would actually allow 'mkdir /home/user' to
work.
So remove this line from /etc/auto_master:
/home auto_home -nobrowse
One of the things I've considered is that when we have ZFS install as
default (at least for Solaris Express Developer Edition) would be that
/home/ is a ZFS filesystem and so is /home/user and automounter in that
case is not managing /home either because ZFS is. This saves us an lofs
mount for each home dir.
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Darren J Moffat
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