On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 11:53 +0800, Yunchih Chen wrote: > Hi friends: > > I'm managing a workstation where user home directories are mounted > from a NFS server. Sometimes the NFS server goes down > and user gets stuck when she tries to login with ssh. We have a > daemon that periodically checks the health of NFS server. If it > goes down, we'd like to apply the "override_homedir" option to > override home directory string from LDAP into some local directory > like /tmp so that user can still login, despite lack of home > directory. > > It seems that whenever I add/remove the "override_homedir" to/from > sssd.conf, I must restart the sssd daemon. > I wonder if I can ask sssd daemon to dynamically reload without a restart? > Or do you have better solution for this scenario?
I would rather explore autofs so each individual home dir is mounted dynamically, and change autofs to mount a tmpfs instead if the nfs server is down. This way you do not change the directory where user files are but just the mount. My 2c, Simo -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York _______________________________________________ sssd-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
