[Sunhelp] Two questions about Solaris 7

[John Lee]

Hello Jarrett,

Thank you very much for your help.

Actually, I'm not familiar with automount. Although I browsed the man page
of automount, I still have a question which maybe silly: Can automount
replace NFS mount ? or What situation does NFS mount apply to ?

Thanks.

John


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Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Two questions about Solaris 7


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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