One /home/username shared amongst several Fedora instances using external HD

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:07:36PM +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> On the other hand, given that the original concept was to mount the home
> directory *at* /home/username (see the title), if the filesystem is not
> mounted, all you will get is the empty directory. It is quite possible
> to put a few scratch login files there (so you have a basic environment
> available when the mount fails): under normal circumstances, they will
> be hidden by the mounted filesystem.
> 
> But you shouldn't need *any* files in /home/username just to log in.

This is true.
As long as the dir is there login should be fine.
However all the setup that copies of  /etc/skel/* 
files bring in will be lacking in the environment of the user.

Not the end of the world but interesting in the details.



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