Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
A portable home dir is sort of a chicken egg thing.
If you login and $HOME as established in /etc/passwd
is not there bad things happen. In some systems you will
be given / or /tmp as a home dir. In other systems you cannot login at all.
If you login then plug an automounted home dir then
where you are was just overlain by the portable filesystem and files that are open may continue (inode open under mount point)
but lots the .files for login are not those you now see.
That's what NIS is for: set up one machine as the NIS server and use ypbind on the other machines so they get their /etc/passwd and other information from the NIS server rather than locally.
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-John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
