Yup, what you did makes perfect sense. It's probably a bug in RHEL5.3, can you upgrade? I'm going to be busy at work the rest of the week and might not have the time to play with this on my RHEL 5.5/5.6 systems either. Bill> Note that the config I had originally described works on other systems Bill> (versions, distros). It's a little crazy-making. Bill> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:17:14PM -0500, John Stoffel wrote:
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:17:14 -0500 From: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Cc: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug@wlug.org> Subject: Re: [Wlug] Overriding NIS accounts Reply-To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Precedence: list
> "John" == John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> writes:
> "Bill" == Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net> writes: Bill> I have an issue at my work with the configuration of one of our Bill> several flavors of linux servers.
Bill> The goal is to override the NIS-specified login directory definition Bill> by using this syntax in /etc/passwd:
Bill> +userx:::::/home/userx:
John> Don't do that, just put the user entry in there without the leading +, John> then it will override properly.
But thinking about it more (not tested yet though) you just want to override the home directory, but keep his password in NIS. Fun. I'll have to play around and see what I can test tmorrow.
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