On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:09:08 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:01 +0000, Neil Bird wrote: > > We're going to be using FC3 in the near future, and we have 'proper' > > LDAP-driven networked accounts (auto-mounted to /home, etc.). > > > > So. What happens when the laptop's at home & off-network? The only > > solution I can see is the ugly one of having a sep. local a/c. and > > trying to wangle permissions on files accordingly (and remembering to > > copy across ~/.files). > > > > There doesn't seem to be the equivalent of <sigh> Windoze's local > > copy of the user 'profile' (i.e., home directory). > > > > Surely I can't be the first person to want something akin to this, > > but I've found *nothing* in Google or the various laptop Linux sites. > > Linux laptop users seem to tend to use them stand-alone (as far as > > logins are concerned). > > > > -- > > [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature > > [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature > > ls: .signature: No such file or directory > > [neil@fnx ~]# exit > > > > What you are wanting seems a prime candidate for having 2 accounts on > the machine. > > One for use at work when on the ldap system and one for use at home. > Logout scripts in one (work) can copy needed stuff to the other at > logout time, and login scripts in the same (work) can copy needed stuff > back. > > You might want to create a separate /home2 for the home account so it is > accessible from both locations. User IDs (uid) being the same at both > sites would make the copy easy with permissions for both users in the > same directories. > I don't claim to be an expert, but if you have to sync 2 home directories I would look at Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/). -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento.
