[OpenIndiana-discuss] local zones and local users

[Jonathan Adams]

Hi Maurilio,
welcome to the group.

first off you'll probably find that /home is an "auto-mounted" directory on
your system, there are a couple of ways around this:
1) edit /etc/auto_master and comment out the line with "/home" in it.
2) create the directory manually in /export/home/<user> and then change
/etc/auto_home so that it has the line:
* localhost:/export/home/&

Jon

On 7 November 2016 at 13:23, Maurilio Longo via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just started my journey inside local zones on latest hipster (2016.10)
> and I have a few questions for which I can't find a conclusive solution
> googling around.
>
> 1) Is sysconfig or sysidtool (the tool that starts when the first zlogin -C
> myzone is executed) for the local configuration of the zone still
> available in
> openindiana/hipster or do I need to manually configure the zone? (timezone,
> root pw, hostname, keyboard, network etc).
>
> 2) my local zone has a /home directory and an /export directory but it
> hasn't
> got the export/home zfs filesystem that I have on every rpool so when I
> try to
> issue a:
>
>         useradd -m local-user
>
> I get an error "unable to create the home directory. Operation non
> applicable".
>
> What is the "correct" or preferred way to proceed?
>
> Can I/should I create, inside my local zone, an export/home zfs filesystem,
> mount it onto /export and then add the user?
>
> Or is it better to mount the global zone's /export/home inside the local
> zone
> (adding an fs with zonecfg) to have a place where I can create local
> user's homes?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Maurilio.
>
>
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