Re: Home directories

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Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:57 +0100, Uno Engborg wrote:
I am the only one thinking that installing new users home directories into /home/ by default is a bad idea. What I would have liked to see in future Fedora releases is, a /export/home directory that was used by default, and that the user directories was automounted
on /home/. from that or from some file server.

That way it would be much easier to make network setups. It would also simplify the use of mobile computers not always connected to the network, as they could mount home directories on a file server when connected to a network, and to fail over to the local version when disconnected. The server and the remote /etc/exports could then be kept synchronized with rsync. when the user logged in or out, or on user demand.

Any thoughts?

Regards
Uno Engborg



... What's the difference?
You can share /home just as you can share /export/home... (Unix admins
have been doing it for ages now)
Just stuff /home/XXX (or /home itself) into your smb.conf/exports and
it'll work just fine.
Actually /export/home followed by automount to /home is quite common too. It is the default in e.g. Solaris. The advantage of having different locations is that it makes it much easier to configure things like /etc/auto.master in LDAP or NIS configurations if /home always is free to be used as a mount point. It is also much easier to tell users that their home directory is always on /home/... regardless if the machine they are using at the moment is the one that actually physically holds their home directory.

Regards
Uno Engborg


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