Hello, NFS homedirs are mounted using autofs. I suppose it is on first access. If I would like to bind mount local dirs to home, it should be done per user and after the NFS is mounted. I see no feasible solution to perform this way.
Marek Odoslané pomocou bezpečného emailu Proton Mail. pondelok 23. marca 2026, 12:19, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> napísal/a: > Let's rewind for a second, and ask where and when those NFS homedirs are > mounted. I suppose this is not done on-the-fly when users log in, that this > is so for a reason, and that the whole infrastructure is already designed > such that new user homedirs are created with at least the basics in place for > them to work. > > That could include making the default XDG_CACHE_HOME location a symlink to a > path that will resolve locally on every system from which users can log in. > > My other suggested solution, a "bind mount" could be done dynamically, and > since this needs to be done with privileges it might be easier to do from a > login manager, without running into race conditions. I just don't know if > doing a "mount bind" on host A will still allow the same action to take place > on host B or C (supposing users can log in from multiple workstations). >
