[Sunhelp] Two questions about Solaris 7

[Jarrett Carver]

If you are using NIS or NIS+ check out nispasswd. Specifically, the -a 
option. This only disconnects the user after 3 failed logins, it does not 
lock the account. So it may not be what you were looking for.

As for mounting home directories. I suggest using automount. This cuts down 
on net traffic when the filesystem is not in use. When the filesystem is 
hard mounted, it will preiodically send traffic to maintain the mount. 
Automount will stop after 10 minutes (I beleive) of idle time and umount the 
partition. If it is needed again it will re-mount.

Hope this helps.


>From: "John Lee" <johnlee at sc.mcel.mot.com>
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [Sunhelp] Two questions about Solaris 7
>Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:39:44 +0800
>
>Greetings,
>
>I have two questions want to get your advice:
>
>1) How can Solaris7 lock an account after serveral  login failures ? As you
>know, NT can do it. I can't find any hints on Solaris7.
>
>2) In a common environment which contains serveral Solaris boxes, One box
>serves as home directory server, other boxes mount the home directory from
>it. My questions is: Which is better : NFS hard mount or automount ?
>
>Thanks for your input.
>
>Regards.
>John Lee
>
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Jarrett Carver           http://www.geocities.com/solarboyz1
solarboyz1 at hotmail.com   Unix/NT Systems Administrator
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