Recommendations for laptop a/c management?

[Leonard Isham]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:09:08 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> 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 at fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
> > [neil at fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
> > ls: .signature: No such file or directory
> > [neil at 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.