Hello All:
I've been using OpenLDAP for authentication on a number of machines for
a while. It worked great for primarily text based logins. Recently I've
installed several Fedora Core 4 instances with full GUI and have been
running into some issues with the shared home. These all seem related
to the shared home directory under NFS. Forexample:
1) Firefox prompts that another session is running if you login with the
same ID to different nodes and launch Firefox. You can create a new
profile to get past this, but there's no easy way to configure a set of
plugins unique to each node.
2) Fluxbox fails to launch because a root-owned process cannot write to
a user home directory (nfs squashes the root permissions, as it should).
3) Various applications drop the configuration files in ~/ as a dotfile.
It varies from application to application so no one method will solve
them all. I've done some things like create a script that launches based
on the hostname. This script (sourced via the user bash_profile) can set
host specific environment variables such as JAVA_HOME.
For example:
# User specific environment and startup programs
LDAP_CURRENT_HOST=`hostname -s`
if [ -f ~/.hostconfig/${LDAP_CURRENT_HOST}.profile ]; then
. ~/.hostconfig/${LDAP_CURRENT_HOST}.profile
fi
This, however, does not work for applications that default to a dotfile
in the home directory.
Anybody have any other solutions they're using for a shared home?
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