On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 05:09:47PM +0200, Lars Madsen wrote: > Scott Balneaves : > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 03:50:26PM +0200, Lars Madsen wrote: > >> > >> Some months ago I mentioned a potential problem in lbus_event_handler.sh, > >> I can see that from LTSP 4.2.4 the problem persists. > > > > It's not a problem. It's a difference between the way that most normal > > installations are, and the way YOU are setting up your system. > > the how /home/user then normally automounted from a fileserver? Instead of > symlinking /home/user to a mountpoint?
$HOME should, normally, point to a REAL directory, not a symlink. If your home directory on a fileserver is /argle/bargle/foo/user, and you mount it on a local machine like /some/mountpoint/argle/bargle/foo/user, and symlink to /home/user, this is exactly the sort of things that will crop up: $HOME isn't REALLY your home. There's a couple of ways to handle this: 1) Modify things a bit on your home dir: /argle/bargle/foo/home/user Then, export /argle/bargle/foo/home Then, when you mount, simply mount server:/argle/bargle/foo/home /home Another way is to set up some kind of automount, create the /home/user dirs, and mount individual home dirs via automount, or equivalent. Either way, having $HOME be a symlink to somewhere else will, as in this case, come back and bite you. And, as someone else pointed out, just searching $USER can sometimes not be uniqe enough. But, more importantly, it's simply an issue of consistency: if your mount $HOME/somemount, that's what you should look for. Otherwise, you might introduce a race, or some other kind of security bugaboo. Cheers, Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | "Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us Systems Department | To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side..." Legal Aid Manitoba | -- Pink Floyd "High Hopes" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
