discuss: How to interpret it?
Subject:
Re: How to interpret it?
From:
Tor Slettnes ####@####.####
Date:
10 Sep 2004 18:59:26 -0000
Message-Id: <1094842733.4205.7.camel@knausen>
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 07:15, ramana wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
> >>Its really painful to go through all the steps again
> >>and repeat everything
> >>because someone suddenly started sleeping ;-)
>
> >It wasnt about me. Someone reading the document would
> >probably prefer a good definition of what the hell it
> >is somewhere upfront in a clear manner.
>
> No No I was not ment to comment on you. Please read my previous mails.
> And thanks for your mail asking to resubmit it.
Ramana, I think you misunderstood Rahul. His point was that the
document itself needs to contain this information (early, upfront), not
that this list or TLDP as a whole needed to be made aware of it.
The "autodir" concept looks interesting. I am not sure how it would
differ very much from using NIS (or NIS+, LDAP...) with "autofs", or
even locally automounted directories - e.g a "auto.home" map containing
a single entry:
* localhost:/export/home/&
It is not really always true (as you say in the document) that "adduser"
creates all home directories inside a single flat /home directory. You
may have the file "/etc/adduser.conf" on your system, with options like:
# The DHOME variable specifies the directory containing users' home
# directories.
DHOME=/home
# If GROUPHOMES is "yes", then the home directories will be created as
# /home/groupname/user.
GROUPHOMES=no
# If LETTERHOMES is "yes", then the created home directories will have
# an extra directory - the first letter of the user name. For example:
# /home/u/user.
LETTERHOMES=no
-tor
