Well, it appears that one cannot do what I wanted. On machine M, which
automounts /home, as root I wanted to be able to do a mkdir /home/newuser. I
know I can do this on the home directory server, but I do not want to do it
there.
thanks for the help
>
> Hello sun managers,
>
> Trying to write a script that would be an nis version of useradd on > a
2.6 system. My nis master and home directory server are 2 > different
machines.
> Nis master has these perms on /home:
>
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Jun 27 1:00 /home/
>
> df -k /home shows:
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /etc/auto_home 0 0 0 0% /home
>
>
> thus I cannot do a useradd -m -d /home/newuser newuser. I need to
> run the useradd command on the nismaster so I can push the maps out >
when complete.
> What do I need to change in order to write to the home dir server
> from the nis master server?
>
> I tried stopping autofs and changing the underlying perms to 755, but no
> luck. Since autofs has control over the filesystem, I cannot simply do a
> chmod on home either!
>
> thanks for any help and I WILL SUMMARIZE!!
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