lynn wrote:
El 26/03/12 13:36, Anton Aylward escribió:
jdd said the following on 03/26/2012 05:51 AM:
may be mount /home2 (--bind?) on /home, you can still access it directly (not tested, just a guess)
Call me paranoid but ... I'd never mount directly on /home
It's not paranoid. The box I'm working on is an exception on our network. It is the only box which has a local user. All the other Linux boxes have an empty /home and simply use it as a mount point.
That's the problem. TGhey are nfs mounting /home (asking for trouble) rather than automounting /home//username, which is the PROPER way of doing NFS-mounted home directories. Your company's admins are both lazy and incompetent, at least at his task. Expect hem to whine and complain when you ask them to fix the problem they created and push out proper automount tables listing each user rather than just lazily assuming that all users accounts will always be stored within one and only one /home filesystem on one and only one server.
All my NFS mounts are onto /mnt/<server_name>/<whatever> and I the use mount --bind to or a symlink to put thing where they expect to be.
Having the home directory on a server and NFS mounting it to the workstation is old, old, old, dating back to the use of NFS by SUN in the 1980s. I've encountered it at many places I've worked and set it up at many others, all based on that technique above and what amounts to "NFS on demand". All this is well documented in many HOW-TOs on the net.
I don't think that having alternative login directories for certain accounts is odd. After all, we have root at /root and others in /var/spool/ and /usr/lib. The issue is access permissions.
So what went wrong? Perhaps we need a sneak at the entries in your /etc/passwd file. As someone said, you can't have two home directories, only one for each account.
No. It's much simpler than that. I have an nfs lan account and a local account on a particular machine. I have good reasons to keep the account local, otherwise I would have opted for a workaround.
I think we've forgotten the problem. Here is the original /etc/passwd entry: lynn:x:1000:100::/home/lynn:/bin/bash
I change it to mkdir /home2 cp -a /home/lynn /home2 chmod -R lynn:users /home2/lynn chmod -R lynn:users /home2/lynn/.* edit /etc/passwd to lynn:x:1000:100::/home2/lynn:/bin/bash mount -t nfs4 /server:/home /home -osec=krb5
It now takes ages to login to my local account (before or after the mount) and I do not see my icon on the lxdm login greeter.
Perhaps there was a problem with copying. In circumstances like that I use rsync rather than cp. In fact when I think about it, I rarely use cp at all ... All those hidden directories are important and its easy to forget about them. Perhaps ... perhaps ... perhaps ...
/var/log/messages also draws a blank wrt login details. As I say, all is well apart from the annoying delay. Ahhgghh! L x
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