[dthacker]

I've been learning the way around the AIX installation at my new position. One of the interesting things I've found is that all of the command line user's home filesystems are on one dev LPAR in /home/acmeusers/, then mounted via NFS out on the rest of the LPAR's. Seems like I'd be asking for trouble if the dev LPAR wasn't mounted. I'd prefer to just use sync tools to synchronize the profiles and /home/username/bin? Anybody else use this pattern of doing things?

Dave

[seth]

Hi

It's not that "exotic", we use a similar setup. We authenticate all our personal Users against a LDAP Server. The LDAP server also exports the /home and we set up automountd to automatically mount the /home/<username> directory as home on the client when the user logs in. Works pretty well and you have everywhere the same homedir, quite nice. Well when there are troubles and the client can't mount the homedir he gets not locked out but is in /home/guest locally instead.

Cheers seth