The first thing I'd try is to mount it manually from the client to see if you get any errors:
Code:
/usr/sbin/mount /home/tom
Note that there must be an entry in /etc/fstab for this to work (that might be your issue...it might've gotten deleted.
Further investigation...
On the server with the home directories, look in /etc/exports to see if the home directory is there. If not, no other machine will be able to access it. If it isn't, run
Code:
exportfs /path/to/home/directories
Also look and make sure the nfsd daemon is running by issuing:
Hi,
I would like to monitor which users enter my home directory. Is it possible to write a script or code to do this. I donot have admin privileges. I have given read permissions to access my home directory.
Any pointers in this direction is helpful!
Thanks,
Pradeep
Ps: I use the... (1 Reply)
Hi
I want to know which profile will be called when a user without home directory is created.
When I created a user without home directory(by setting in /etc/default/useradd), the user is able to login directly into the main "/" folder but with only read permissions.
Thanks
naina (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am looking for a shell script (or any other way), that puts a user in a home directory jail. So for example, I have a user named richard and I don't want him wandering outside /usr/users/richard. I don't want him to cd to anywhere including cd ..
Somebody said you can do that with... (3 Replies)
The home directory for a very important user ie prdadm in my system is missing. the files were not deleted but seem to disapper after I had configured /etc/hosts.equiv file. Though I undid the changes later on nothing seems to be the same
. As a result I can't log in as the user prdadm. I get... (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have a problem with configuring a server. this is a solaris 10 with sparc platform.
I have setup so that the server is Authenticating through NIS but I dont want the server to Mount the Home directories. The users need to logged in through the CDE/display.
I have over 200 users... (2 Replies)
RHEL5.0
As we know, when root create a new user, a new home directory will be created : /home/user
I want to know what determine the access permission of /home/user .
Thanks! (1 Reply)
Following on from this post:
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/150201-simple-script-mount-folder-all-users-home.html
and getting told off for bumping the thread:(
Please could someone help me with a short script to check is a certain directory is present in /home for all users... (8 Replies)
Hi friends,
I must to give ssh connection to own customer.
So I want to lock ssh user on own home directory. It is not necessery to reach other folders. I know that ftp user can lock on own folder but I don't know how to lock ssh user.
I am waitting your kindly helps :D
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Hello,
I must close ssh users to the home directory.
It means the users musn't see anything inside their home directory.
For example after login to the os and type this command "cd .."
or "cd /" it musn't work.
How can I implement it?
(Probably chroot or rootsh but how?) (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have created a shared directory on /home, where all users on a certain group have read, write and execute permissions.
I did this using
chmod -R g+rwx /home/shared/
The problem is, when a particular user creates a directory within /home/shared, other users are not able to write to... (8 Replies)
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finger(1) General Commands Manual finger(1)NAME
finger - user information lookup program
SYNOPSIS
[options] user_name ...
DESCRIPTION
By default, lists for each user_name on the system:
o Login name,
o Full given name,
o Terminal write status (if write permission is denied),
o Idle time,
o Login time,
o User's home directory and login shell,
o Any plan the user has placed in file in their home directory,
o Project on which they are working from the file also in the home directory,
o office location and phone number (if known),
o last time the user received the mail, and last time the user read the mail.
Idle time is in minutes if listed as a single integer, hours and minutes if a is present, or days and hours if a is present. Account names
as well as first and last names of users are accepted.
can also be used to list users on a remote machine. The format for user_name is user_name@host. If user_name is not specified, the remote
system (HP-UX or non-HP-UX) uses its default standard format for listing user information.
Options
recognizes the following options:
Suppress printing the user's home directory and shell.
Suppress printing the header that is normally printed
in a short-format printout.
Suppress printing the
file in a long-format printout.
Force ``idle'' output format.
Similar to short format except that only the login name, terminal, login time, and idle time are printed.
Force long output format.
Match arguments only on user name.
Suppress printing of the
files
Force quick output format.
Similar to short format except that only the login name, terminal, and login time are printed.
Print the user's host name.
Force short output format.
Suppress printing the full name in a short-format printout.
WARNINGS
Only the first line of the file is printed.
AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES
who file
last login file
for users names, offices, ...
plans
projects
mail directory
SEE ALSO chfn(1), who(1), utmpd(1M).
finger(1)