lost home directory

UNIX Solaris
1

The home directory for a very important user ie prdadm in my system is missing. the files were not deleted but seem to disapper after I had configured /etc/hosts.equiv file. Though I undid the changes later on nothing seems to be the same

. As a result I can't log in as the user prdadm. I get the error message below

root@PRD#su - prdadm
su: No directory!
root@PRD#

I just did a check on autofs config files in my server .directory /etc/auto_direct is missing. below is the output of /etc/auto_home & /etc/auto_master

root@PRD#

root@PRD#cat /etc/auto_home

[b]# Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
# ident "@(#)auto_home 1.6 03/04/28 SMI"
#
# Home directory map for automounter
#
+auto_home
root@PRD#
root@PRD#

root@PRD#cat /etc/auto_master

# Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
# ident "@(#)auto_master 1.8 03/04/28 SMI"
#
# Master map for automounter
#
+auto_master
/net -hosts -nosuid,nobrowse
/home auto_home -nobrowse
root@PRD#

the entry of the user in /etc/passwd
prdadm:x:105:101:SAP System Administrator:/home/prdadm:/bin/csh

Is there a way I can recover the home directory files for user prdadm ?

kindly assist

2

Are you using NIS/LDAP or similar name services ie. what do you have in /etc/nsswitch.conf ?

Also do you have any idea where the backing filesystem is for the home directories, and is it local or remote?

3

I'd also ask what the following command tells you?

df -k /home
4

Thanks for your response guys

The response for df -k /home is below

however I realize when the home directories were visible command df -k /home would show it mounted on device /dev/md/dsk/d30 which has the root filesystem .

I believe the person who created the users picked /home as the home directory for the users he created

NIS/LDAP or similar name services are not in use

in /etc/nsswitch.conf
automount: files

I'm not sure where the backing filesystem for the home directories is local or remote but I have a backup of the root filesystem

5

The problem with my setup is that the directory /export/home is not there. Whoever did the Solaris instalation ommited that option.

I believe that is why the users created in the system have their home directories in /home