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- From: rouilj@cs.umb.edu (John P. Rouillard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: NFS automounted home directories and .forward files
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- Date: 18 Aug 92 21:45:36 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu's message of 18 Aug 92 00: 27:26 GMT
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- Well on the server you could set up dummy homes
- and have the users run a newforward script for putting their .forward into
- these new homes on the server.
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- Since this is a hub machine, I assume you don't have users logging
- into it, so they shouldn't mind having dummy homes.
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- Also, one scheme with amd is to use these new homes to provide a
- minimal environment for a user when his/her real home is unavailable.
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- They can at least read mail, news etc (granted saving the messages may
- be problematic).
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- -- John
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