You need to have your passwd entry as: passwd: files nis Then it'll look at your local /etc/passwd, then nis. Thanks, Tim. On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net>wrote:
I have an issue at my work with the configuration of one of our several flavors of linux servers.
The goal is to override the NIS-specified login directory definition by using this syntax in /etc/passwd:
+userx:::::/home/userx: +@grpx:::::: +::::::
/etc/nsswitch.conf has (in part):
passwd: compat shadow: files nis group: files nis
The distribution is Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga).
If this was working I would get the following:
echo ~userx /home/userx
Instead, I'm getting the login dir specified in NIS.
I've successfully configured a Red Hat 6.3 server to work properly, but this one is driving me batty.
Any suggestions?
TIA, Bill _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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