What if you created a group and added all users to it. Then you could create a shared home directory and apply permissions to allow anyone in that group to use it. Next, use usermod to change each user's home directory to the new shared location.
As unix doesn't lock files that are in use, I don't think there would be a huge issue in having them share it in the way described above... only thing I can think is that you might hit issues with new file creation/permission/ownership and with umask you could force group ownership to have full access to the files... Would that work? -- Brett Johnson simpleroute | 1690 Williston Road | South Burlington, VT 05401 tel: 802-578-3983 | email: [email protected] | web: simpleroute.com On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Bjorn Behrendt <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking for an opensource alternative to Forensit's User Profile > manager, or another commercial one I found was Zap (which at the moment is > only windows XP). > In windows every user who logs in gets a cached local profile made for them. > Microsoft has some overcomplicated methods for managing this, but I don't > like them. > I am just trying to make it so that every user who logs into the windows > machine uses the same user profile. I have been looking for this feature > for a while now. I have almost come to the conclusion that there is not an > opensoruce version written yet. > -bj > > > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Anthony Carrico <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On 07/20/2010 08:52 AM, Bjorn Behrendt wrote: >> > I just found Forensit's User Profile Manager. They have a feature >> > where in Windows you can assign a single profile to a group of users. >> > This saves a lot of time and frustration. I would love to find (or >> > make if i knew how) an OpenSource version. It doesn't even need to be >> > as fancy, just one check box that forces everyone who logs in to use 1 >> > profile. >> > >> > Any Ideas anyone? >> >> I don't think I know what a Windows User Profile is, I'm assuming it is >> something like Unix group ids, or initial homedir skeleton, etc., but >> anyway are you looking for something similar to manage accounts on a >> unix/linux machine, or an open source tool to actually manage a Windows >> installation? >> >> -- >> Anthony Carrico >> > > > > -- > Bjorn Behrendt > IT Coordinator > Mount St. Joseph > [email protected] > (802) 775-0151 >
