03-01-2002
Well the home directory at least must be owned by the right uid. The the user on clientsystem had a uid of, say, 123, you really could just chown it to that numeric uid. Everything would work, however this situation bums me out. Therefore I would always ensure that the account exists on serversystem.
You can simply run the adduser program on both clientsys and serversys. Most folks would automate this somewhat. Other people copy passwd, shadow, and group around. Some people use rsync to automate the copy. Keeping 3 files in sync across several systems in a minor problem and there are dozens of solutions.
In the scenario we are describing, seversystem doesn't even need automounter running as I mentioned. If it doesn't need automounter running, it also wouldn't need any map file laying around. In fact, if /home is the location where these directories physically reside, it would be crucial that automounter not try to mount stuff there.
And bear in mind that you can't have it both ways. If you're not running NIS, then no entry in nsswitch.conf can specify NIS, including automount. So you can't use + in any maps. You have to modify the maps to be direct maps or something.
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autofs
AUTOFS(8) System Manager's Manual AUTOFS(8)
NAME
/etc/init.d/autofs - Control Script for automounter
SYNOPSIS
/etc/init.d/autofs start|stop|reload
DESCRIPTION
autofs control the operation of the automount(8) daemons running on the Linux system. Usually autofs is invoked at system boot time with
the start parameter and at shutdown time with the stop parameter. The autofs script can also manually be invoked by the system administra-
tor to shut down, restart or reload the automounters.
OPERATION
autofs will consult a configuration file /etc/auto.master (see auto.master(5)) to find mount points on the system. For each of those mount
points a automount(8) process is started with the appropriate parameters. You can check the active mount points for the automounter with
the /etc/init.d/autofs status command. After the auto.master configuration file is processed the autofs script will check for an NIS map
with the same name. If such a map exists then that map will be processed in the same way as the auto.master map. The NIS map will be pro-
cessed last.
/etc/init.d/autofs reload will check the current auto.master map against running daemons. It will kill those daemons whose entries have
changed and then start daemons for new or changed entries.
If a map is modified then the change will become effective immediately. If the auto.master map is modified then the autofs script must be
rerun to activate the changes.
/etc/init.d/autofs status will display the current configuration and a list of currently running automount daemons.
SEE ALSO
automount(8), autofs(5), auto.master(5).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christoph Lameter <chris@waterf.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Edited by H. Peter Anvin
<hpa@transmeta.com>.
9 Sep 1997 AUTOFS(8)