/home autofs question

[dandan123]

I have an app NIS id that is used on a bunch of servers.

The home directory is defined as /abc/appid

I want to overided the NIS defined home directory by using a /etc/passwd entry and also use automounter to mount this directory as /home/appid ?

 

[Annihilannic]

I think a local /etc/passwd entry should override the NIS definition... have you tried it?

Automounting should behave normally either way, as long as the appropriate configuration is in place.

Annihilannic.

 

[djr111]

won't it only override if the nsswitch.conf is set to file before nis?

 

[dandan123]

Thanks for your responses.

The reason I posted was even though I had the correct entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/auto_home it wasn't working.

The problem turned out to be some processes which were hung accessing /home/appid, once I killed these processes it worked ok.