Creating a Local Home Environment

To create a local home environment, use either admintool or useradd to specify a local /etc/passwd entry and a local home directory (/export/home/username is recommended).

If your site does not export a network /etc/passwd map through one of the name services, the /etc/passwd entry and home directory will be the only one associated with your username. This is the simplest user configuration.

However, if there is a entry for you in a network /etc/passwd database (i.e. one managed by NIS or NIS+), specify the same user and group id numbers (UID and GID respectively) for the local /etc/passwd entry as are specified in the network database, but specify a different path name for the home directory.

Specify the same UID and GID so that your files are accessible to you whether or not you are logged into the SPARCstation Voyager or another machine and whether or not you are working in a local or remote directory.

Do not specify the same path for the local home directory as for the home directory in the network version of /etc/passwd because the network path is not accessible when the machine is disconnected.