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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Solaris 9 Home Directory, Two Machines Sharing a NAS Post 303023960 by Stellaman1977 on Wednesday 26th of September 2018 11:15:21 AM
Old 09-26-2018
Solaris 9 Home Directory, Two Machines Sharing a NAS
Good Morning,


I have 2 Solaris 9 machines sharing a NAS, and need to have users to be able to log in from the 2nd machine and get to all of their files on the NAS that were created on the 1st machine.


So far its working ok, but when users log in to the second machine, their user IDs show up as numbers, and they are not considered the owner. I used
Code:
usermod -u 1234 username

to get the user ID on the second machine to match the user ID on the first, but the user could not log in after that. I believe the issue is with the home directory: I think I need to change the owner of it recursively which makes me nervous. Should I:
Code:
chown -R username /home/username

?



I'm concerned because when looking over that home directory, there are 2 folders in the root group, and one of those has root as the owner. These appear to be for navigation. eg. commands
Code:
.

and
Code:
..

(These always appear at the top of directories.)


Would changing the directory recursively mess things up? Is there something else I should do as well?
 

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createhomedir

createhomedir(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 					  createhomedir(1)

NAME

     createhomedir -- create and populate home directories on the local computer.

SYNOPSIS

     createhomedir [-scbalh] [-n directoryDomainName] [-u username]

DESCRIPTION

     createhomedir provides several options for creating and populating home directories.

OPTIONS

     -s       creates home directories for server home paths only (default).

     -c       creates home directories for local home paths only.

     -b       creates home directories for both server and local home paths.

     -a       creates home directories for users defined in all directory domains of the server's search path.

     -l       creates home directories for users defined in the local directory domain.

     -n directoryDomainName
	      creates home directories for users defined in a specific directory domain in the server's search path.

     -u username
	      creates a home directory for a specific user defined in the domain(s) identified in the -a, -l, or -n parameter. If you omit the -a,
	      -l, and -n parameters when you use the -u parameter, -a is assumed.

     -i       reads username list from standard input and creates specified home directories. Each username should be on its own line.

     -h       usage help.

FILES

     /usr/sbin/createhomedir			   location of tool

CAVEATS

     When using the -a option, search limits of various directory servers (such as Open Directory or Active Directory) can prevent all possible
     home directories from being created. In this case, you may need to specify the usernames explicitly.

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