[OpenIndiana-discuss] local zones and local users

[Maurilio Longo]

Hi Jonathan,

thanks.

I was aware of /home and /export/home what I find "strange" is that there 
isn't a zfs fs mounted on export/home like it happens inside the global zone.

Regards.

Maurilio.

Jonathan Adams wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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