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Re: home dir not found?

Re: home dir not found?
Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:06:24 -040
Hi, Paula,

>Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:27:21 -0700
>From: "Paula J. Lindsay" <paula@scripps.edu>  
>
>Hi everyone,
>I have a weird thing happening to a user that is using rhe 5 with nis 
>and nfs and autofs.  When he firsts trys to log on, he gets the
>error "no home directory found."  Then when he tries again, he can
log 
>in without incident.  Has anyone ever seen this happen
>before?  I looked in the logs, but nothing is mentioned.  It 
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I haven't seen this, but it sounds as though it's not automounting his home
directory...unless - does he have an account on this box, but the home directory
is mounted from another server? Is it possible that pam is looking in
/etc/password the first time, and the second he gets nis, and then it mounts?

      mark
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