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Support for Ampersand in NIS Home Account Definitions on Remote NFS Servers

When accounts are created on an NIS endpoint and are configured to use a remote home directory mounted by NFS, the “Directory” name in the Remote server field now supports the ampersand character. This matches standard /etc/auto_home syntax. For example, the “Directory” field can contain “/export/home/&” to define the user home directory that is on the NFS server. The ampersand is replaced with the username when the directory is created, and the /etc/auto_home definition on the NIS server uses the ampersand syntax.

To create the remote directories so that they can be written to, join the NFS server to the NIS domain where you are provisioning the account. Joining the NFS server to the domain means that the created home directory on the NFIS server has permissions based on the uid of the NIS domain account, and that the new account is common across both servers.