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home directory through nis mapping
Name: intsreejith Date: June 28, 2006 at 02:13:48 Pacific OS: solaris 8 CPU/Ram: 512 Product: sun
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HI, I am having a solaris nis server and a file server running on solaris (pre installed).I need to add new workstations (linux) to this server, i stopped firewall and selinux on linux pc & configured network.I used authconfig to connect to nis server. In the NIS server cd /var/yp/src and edited netgroup & hosts. and then used make command. Now If i give su <nisusername> it allows authentication but without home directory. Plz tell me which file i need to edit in NIS inorder to get the homedirectory of logged user. Thank you All
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