> On that note, I think there would be a way to query NIS for home dir,
> no? I wonder what it is...
Yes there is, instead of using:
$cat /etc/passwd | blablabla
use:
$ypcat passwd | blablabla
-munir
> ("Yes, I think reading the NFS/NIS book is
> more interesting right now than what I'm _supposed_ to be doing," he
> said heading for the bookshelf.)
>
> Clearly this is something that is easy to do on one particular system,
> but difficult to do in the general case of all Unix systems.