> 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.