Unix : home directory

[Florian Lengyel]

What is the directory specified by

getent passwd user1

(however you manage users; e.g., /etc/passwd, LDAP, NIS, Samba AD to PAM sid
to uid/gid translation with idmap_rid in /etc/samba/smb.conf etc)?

You may be able to do what you want with automount multimaps...


On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, chris job.fr <chrisjob.fr at gmail.com>wrote:

> The local directory is on the disl of the user's computer, but the pam
> directory is a NFS file system.  The user can use differents computers
> and can find his data everywhere (on the pam directory). But he can do
> something confidentially on his own system (a local directory).
>  Sometimes we have problem with the NFS storage and with this
> solution (connection on the pam directory), the use can't connect
> anywhere. The problem is on Unix.
>
>  So the symbolic link is not the solution.
>
> Thank you
> Chris
>
> 2011/2/21 Guillaume Allegre <allegre.guillaume at free.fr>:
> > Le lun. 21 f�vr. 2011 à 16:09 +0100, chris job.fr a ecrit :
> >>   Hello,
> >>
> >>   Our users have two home directories : a local one (/home/user1) and
> >> the "pam directory" (/pam/users1).  When a user goes on a unix
> >> platform of the laboratory, he is automatically on the pam directory
> >> (/pam/users1).
> >>   Is it possible to do this thing : if the pam directory is
> >> inaccessible, the user is automatically on their local directory
> >> (/home/user1).
> >>
> >
> > Maybe you could explain how (and when) the /pam/* directories
> > are mounted, and which filesystem ? nfs...
> >
> >
> > A very basic solution would be to have each /pam/userN as a symbolic
> > link on /home/userN, which would be the fallback.
> > When automounting (?) is OK, it would be replaced by the real "shared"
> /pam/userN
> >
> >
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