Re: [ProgSoc] Where's my directory?

["Murray Grant" <ligos@nospam.yahoo.com>]

> > No directory /home/txc!
> > Logging in with home = "/".
> > [txc@nospam.ftoomsh /]$
> 
> Not really a stupid question.
> The person who set up your account muddled up the auto.home map

All the entries in the NIS database are handled automagically. It 
*shouldn't* need to be manually edited for any reason. 

> This is what I mean:
> 
> philtong@nospam.ftoomsh: ~ >ypmatch txc auto.home
> ftoomsh:/export/cat
> philtong@nospam.ftoomsh: ~ >
> 
> It should be ftoomsh:/export/cats/txc - this means one of the admins
> (what's the name of the administrator email list again?) needs to fix
> up the NIS auto.home map.

The problem is a bit deeper than that. txc's key in auto.home got 
cut off part way though. There were two users after him in 
auto.home, neither of them existed according to ypmatch. I've 
rebuilt the NIS database and things seem ok, for the moment.

I've been playing around with the delete user script of late. There 
may still be some bugs in it.

Murray Grant
ligos@nospam.yahoo.com  ICQ# 8607430

An inch of respect lost, takes a mile to regain.
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