I'd bet your case is sufficiently common to warrant documenting it. It
may even be sufficiently interesting for someone to provide a complete
mechanism for switching between the two situations [But I hope you
folks have *really* good firewalls and you are really cautious at home,
plain NIS is notoriously insecure. Do you make sure there is not a
cached copy of the NIS password file when you leave work?].
But for the newbies - the home users who want it to "just work" - it's
complexity they don't need to know about.
For Enterprise class machines there should be a warm body admin
sufficiently skilled to deal with the install aftermath nicely.
So I don't have a suitable kernel booted, you folks tell me, with the
demise of vold does automountd now handle removable media? If it
doesn't, why even let it run when the domain & nameservice information
indicate the isolated desktop situation? Anything you can do to
eliminate possible points of mysterious failure for the newbies is a
good thing.
John Plocher wrote:
I think I am missing something here.
If the system is changed to have a local filesystem mounted as /home,
then the automounter can't also use that point to mount /home/otherpeople,
right?
If so, when I move my client laptop from home to work (where home implies
no NIS/NFS and work implies the opposite), then I'm stuck, right?
I'd have to move the filesystem mount from /home to /export/home,
change my auto_home map and update nsswitch.conf.
Contrast that to today, where I mount the local filesystem on /export/home,
set up nsswitch.conf to use "files", add an entry to auto_home for
~plocher,
and, when I drop by the office, I simply change nsswitch.conf, change the
entry to "files NIS", and run ypinit....
Darren J Moffat wrote:
I don't believe it does make it difficult at all. ...
-John
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