NIS create homedir

[Lowell Gilbert]

Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot at lphp.org> writes:

> I was wondering if it was possible to automaticaly create users home 
> directories when creating NIS users ?
> Indeed, the "-m" switch for the command "pw" does not create them. Is it 
> normal behaviour, or is it a bug ?

I took a quick look, and it *looks* like it should work
(although there are plenty of potential pitfalls there, obviously).
I don't have an NIS setup, though, nor enough boxes to set one up, so
I can't really debug it very far...