[BBLISA] NIS logins - directory doesn't seem to appear

[Dean Anderson]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> I'm in the home stretch of recreating my working test environment with Samba 
> and NIS/NFS working from the same server (RHEL 5 Server) and CentOS 5/ WinXP 
> w/SP2 as clients.
> 
> Samba works perfectly as a PDC.
> 
> I was able to succcessfully initiate a ypyinit -s server on the client and the 
> dtaa came through fine, and accounts on the server were created, but when I try 
> to log in to a client (all on the production side), CentOS complains the 
> yp-based account /home/testuer doesn't seem to exist and threatens to log me in 
> as root.

This is where you create an automounter map that mounts the home
directory when the user logs in. The homedir will be something like
/autofs/<username> or some such instead of the standard
/home/<username>.  Don't move the automounter mountpoint to /home,
otherwise you'll get confused with real local accounts, like root, or
software accounts.

		--Dean

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