[TriLUG] Login not grabbing NIS/passwd diff

[Mike Shaw]

Jon Carnes <jonc at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>I always thought that when you logged in via NFS then
>it used that Authentication source to setup your
>account specifics (like your home directory and your
>shell).  When you logged in via the local file system
>then it used those for your account specifics.
>
NIS does allow for you to make modifications to how
someone logs in(or at least it has allowed me to in
the past!).  I should be able to modify any of the
fields in my local passwd file and as long as I have a
"+" as the first entry then whatever I DON'T specify
then it should get that field from NIS.  This
allows(and has in the past at a different place)
allowed me to have specified a "supported shell"
globally and bash locally.

>The only way I've found to over-ride that in Linux is
>use use some scripting in a .login file.  In mine I
>always look for the existence of bash and then switch
>my shell to bash if it exists on the local machine.
>
This is the first time I've had to do this since
Debian 2.2 or RH7.2 but what I described should work. 
My only thought is that the NIS master is running
Solaris 5.5 and the version of NIS it has could be
causing me problems.

>If you need help with something like that, let me
>know.
>
Yes!  I would very much like to see your work-around.

Thanks,

Mike

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