squall_web//5.0

OpenSolaris has a very nice feature called automount that, when implemented, seems to be a very promising feature, however if you only have one or two servers or don’t want a ‘roaming’ home directory, then you can disable it.

The error you receive if you try to create a directory in /home will look like this:

mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/x': Operation not applicable

edit /etc/auto_master and comment out the line that has auto_home on it.

# Master map for automounter
#
+auto_master
/net		-hosts		-nosuid,nobrowse
#/home		auto_home	-nobrowse

rename the /etc/auto_home file to something else:

root@server:~# mv /etc/auto_home /etc/auto_home_disabled

Restart the autofs service and unmount the auto mounted /home:

root@server:~# svcadm refresh autofs
root@server:~# umount /home

You should now be able to use the /home directory like you are used to (you may need to change permissions on the directory.