NIS Users and Local Users

Quick basic question on NIS... I would like to setup NIS for centralized
password (shadow) authentication, along with autofs for nfs mounted home
directories in /home. My question is, if I also had those same users setup
locally with /home directories and various local group memberships... how
would that effect NIS? Would the autmounter then mount the NFS /home/user
"over the top" of the existing /home/user? Assuming the /etc/nsswitch is
configured with "nis files" as the preferred order, and that passwd is the
only NIS map, how would having a user and group configured locally as well
as on the NIS server be problem.

Dusty wrote:

> Would the autmounter then mount the NFS /home/user
> "over the top" of the existing /home/user?
Yes
> Assuming the /etc/nsswitch is
> configured with "nis files" as the preferred order, and that passwd is the
> only NIS map, how would having a user and group configured locally as well
> as on the NIS server be problem.
Because automounter would overlay the entire /home directory
Your better course of action is to establish NIS users with a /home/users
<nisuser> with passwd using that home dir.
On local machine same user would be in /home/<user> with that passwd file
having that home dir.
Then when user logins in at machine he is a local user he uses /home
hisfiles
When same user logs in on any other machine he uses /home/users/hisfiles.
Problem is you need a method to sync those two directories.
Hope this helps
ppd