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[John Pettigrew <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a previous message, Nick LeRoy <nleroy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No, your X session processes and shell would be running on the downstairs
> machine, but your home directory, userid, etc, would all be the same as the
> upstairs machine, so it's somewhat irrelevant what machine you're sitting
> at

So, logging in via local gdm would log me into the local user, but with the
home directory from the remote machine? That would be fine, I think. I'd just
need to export a few other directories (e.g. /var/mail) so that things work.

If I mount the NFS home share etc. at boot time, I don't quite see what
benefit NIS would bring me if I've already got effectively an identical login
on the two machines, assuming that I install the same software on both.

John
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