"Roaming profiles" style system... suggestions?

[Joseph Kubik]

These are IMNSHO the best large campus computing environments ever created:
http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/about/index.html
http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/athena/index.html

The ARLA project has some neat distributed filesystem stuff going on:
http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/

The simple but less neat answer is:
rsync a minimal home dir to each box overnight (or use KERB??) that
automaticly re-mounts $HOME to some samba share (NFS is kinda ugly)
(.bashrc: mount /server/$user ./)
-Joseph-
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:56:26 -0500, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Madison Kelly wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I am trying to set up my first all-Linux network. Until now most of my
> > networks have been based on MS clients or, more often, networks where
> > "normal" communication was using web-based front ends.
> >
> >   As it stands I am currently planning to have the server connect to
> > each client at night using 'rsync' and copying any deltas over to the
> > server before running a backup. What I would really like to do though is
> > have a setup similar to MS' "roaming profiles" like I used to use over
> > Samba. I know that I could use an NFS share as the user's home directory
> > which is mounted at boot. That though would limit the system to one user
> >  to a given machine.
> >
> >   Is there a way (google hasn't helped yet) to have a script run when a
> > user enters their name and password? This way, I hope, I could write a
> > script that would not mount anything off NFS until the user logs in and
> > then mount the appropriate NFS share when the user validates him or
> > herself.
> >
> >   Is there any how-tos or other helpful information someone could point
> > me to? It would be a real help! Thank you!
> >
> > Madison
> >
> 
> Woops,
> 
>    Forgot to mention; I am currently using Fedora Core 3.
> 
> :)
> 
> Madison
> 
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