HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90023, September 2010)

See “Adding a User to Several Systems: A Case Study” (page 144) for steps to create a
home directory on a remote system.
Adding a User to Several Systems: A Case Study
The following example shows how to import Tom’s home directory and work directory
from the file server, flserver, and import Emacs and Netscape from the application
server, appserver.
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Before beginning, make sure Tom’s login name has a UID number that is unique across
the systems he is going to use. (Your network administrator may have a program to
ensure uniqueness of UID numbers.)
Then create an account for Tom on the file server, flserver. See HP-UX System
Administrator’s Guide: Configuration Management.
Then do the following procedure:
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