Hi
How can we use NIS to control a user in different servers?
eg: serverA /home/userA/javaapplication
serverB /export/home/userA/javaapplication
serverC /vol/home/javaapplication
Thank you
ann kok wrote:> Hi > > How can we use NIS to control a user in different servers? > > eg: serverA /home/userA/javaapplication > serverB /export/home/userA/javaapplication > serverC /vol/home/javaapplication > > Thank you >Could you be more specific on what you are trying to do ?
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:05:40PM -0700, ann kok wrote:> Hi > > How can we use NIS to control a user in different servers? > > eg: serverA /home/userA/javaapplication > serverB /export/home/userA/javaapplication > serverC /vol/home/javaapplication > > Thank youAutomounter maps? I guess they'd need a bit of intelligence.... Ray
ann kok writes:> Hi > > How can we use NIS to control a user in different servers? > > eg: serverA /home/userA/javaapplication > serverB /export/home/userA/javaapplication > serverC /vol/home/javaapplicationIf you use NIS auto.home for home directories in general, e.g. /home/user, you can install a local auto.home map on each server so that /home/userA is a different physical directory on each server See 18.3.3.1 at http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-nfs-client-config-autofs.html. --------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any attachments may contain Cypress (or its subsidiaries) confidential information. If it has been received in error, please advise the sender and immediately delete this message. ---------------------------------------------------------------