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NFS is a nightmare, for many reasons. But there are similar solutions such as `pam_mkhomedir` which can be coerced into fetching dotfiles when a user logs in,
by stevekemp 10y ago
NFS is a nightmare, for many reasons. But there are similar solutions such as `pam_mkhomedir` which can be coerced into fetching dotfiles when a user logs in, etc.
- yjftsjthsd-h 10y agoCould you please share some of those reasons? I ask because I'm doing this... hasn't been a problem yet, but I'd rather know about issues now than later!
- stevekemp 10y agoNFS can frequently cause hanging guests if the server goes away, leaving the filesystem mounted. Locking is often a problem, for example if you've got ~ mounted on NFS and you're delivering mail to mboxes - obviously maildirs sidestep that particular problem. Firewalling is a real pain, as is access-control and UID remapping. (These are more concerns when you have a single server sharing a tree to multiple clients.) Finally failover & high-availablity are hard because you can't do transitions terribly easily, although hacks exist using automounter, etc.
- derefr 10y ago> as is access-control and UID remapping Mind you, these are obviated if, as I was saying above, the NFS server and its clients are all part of the same directory-services domain.