Sincronize /etc/passwd and /etc/yp/passwd.master

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 05:06:36PM +0000, Ângelo Rodrigues wrote:
> On Monday 28 April 2003 15:48, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Apr 28), ^Angelo Rodrigues said:
> > > On Monday 28 April 2003 15:16, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, [iso-8859-1] ^Angelo Rodrigues wrote:
> > > > > I'm trying to find an effective way to sincronize
> > > > > /etc/passwd.master and /etc/yp/passwd.master (at the same time)
> > > > > without having to force all local users to run two commands,
> > > > > passwd and yppasswd. Any ideia?
> > > >
> > > > a)
> > > > a simbolic link:    /var/yp/master.passwd -> /etc/master.passwd
> > > >
> > > > b) change your /var/yp/Makefile to take /etc/master.passwd
> > > > instead of /var/yp/master.passwd
> > >
> > > Hmmm...but this will force the same home directory between the server
> > > and the client.
> >
> > You want the same password; why wouldn't you want the same homedir and
> > shell also?  All our NIS users have their homedir set to
> > /net/homedirmachine/home/username.
> 
> But my server users are distributed betwen /home and /homeapp and
> this method will force the same thing in the clients.

You can selectively override part of a NIS password database entry by
using NIS magic tokens in the local passwd file --- see passwd(5).
For instance, user 'fred' might have home directory /home/fred in the
NIS database, but you can override that in a client machine to
/users/fred by putting:

    +fred::::::::/users/fred:

into /etc/master.passwd on the client.  All of the other fields are
inherited from the NIS database.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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