How to Export Home Directories in the Global Zone Into a Non-Global Zone

This procedure is used to export home directories or other file systems from the global zone into non-global zones on the same system.

You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.

1. Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.

   To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

2. Add the loopback-mounted filesystem.

   global# zonecfg -z my-zone zonecfg:my-zone> add fs zonecfg:my-zone:fs> set dir=/export/home zonecfg:my-zone:fs> set special=/export/home zonecfg:my-zone:fs> set type=lofs zonecfg:my-zone:fs> set options=nodevices zonecfg:my-zone:fs> end zonecfg:my-zone> commit zonecfg:my-zone> exit

3. Add the following line to the zone's /etc/auto_home file:

   $HOST:/export/home/&