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

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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