You need to have your passwd entry as:<div><br></div><div>passwd: files nis</div><div><br></div><div>Then it&#39;ll look at your local /etc/passwd, then nis.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Tim.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Bill Mills-Curran <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bill@mills-curran.net" target="_blank">bill@mills-curran.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have an issue at my work with the configuration of one of our<br>
several flavors of linux servers.<br>
<br>
The goal is to override the NIS-specified login directory definition<br>
by using this syntax in /etc/passwd:<br>
<br>
+userx:::::/home/userx:<br>
+@grpx::::::<br>
+::::::<br>
<br>
/etc/nsswitch.conf has (in part):<br>
<br>
passwd:     compat<br>
shadow:     files nis<br>
group:      files nis<br>
<br>
The distribution is Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2<br>
(Tikanga).<br>
<br>
If this was working I would get the following:<br>
<br>
&gt; echo ~userx<br>
/home/userx<br>
<br>
Instead, I&#39;m getting the login dir specified in NIS.<br>
<br>
I&#39;ve successfully configured a Red Hat 6.3 server to work properly,<br>
but this one is driving me batty.<br>
<br>
Any suggestions?<br>
<br>
TIA,<br>
Bill<br>
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