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

[John Thompson]

Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:


> A portable home dir is sort of a chicken egg thing.
> 
> 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.
> 
> If you login then plug an automounted home dir then
> where you are was just overlain by the portable filesystem 
> and files that are open may continue (inode open under mount point)
> but lots the .files for login are not those you now see.

That's what NIS is for: set up one machine as the NIS server and use 
ypbind on the other machines so they get their /etc/passwd and other 
information from the NIS server rather than locally.


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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)