Questions tagged [home-directory]
A home directory (or "home folder" on Windows and Mac OSes) is a file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing files for a given user of the system.
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Is it feasible to have home folder hosted with NFS?
I'm planning to deploy some kiosk computers and would like to leave them with a small pendrive as boot disk, keeping the rest at an easy to back up server, ala LTSP.
Right now I'm pondering two ...
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HALP! I've inherited a permissions nightmare for redirected folders/home directories
My new employer has folder redirection setup for its hundreds of users, and the person who set it up didn't really know what he was doing. As a result, the best practices for permissions on ...
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Managing access to multiple linux system
A searched for answers but have found nothing on here...
Long story short: a non-profit organization is in dire need of modernizing its infrastructure. First thing is to find an alternatives to ...
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Share /home between datacenters
I have two servers, placed at datacenters in holland and france. Both are running Debian Wheezy. I need to share /home between them, with good performance. There are 300-something users on the servers,...
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How do I change the default location for a users home directory in Vista?
I would like to move the default location of my c:\Users\USERNAME to another drive. What is the easiest way to do this and how?
I know that I can move each of my "Special Folders" like Documents, ...
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SSH home directory per subdomain
I'm wondering if it is possible to set different home directories for the same ssh user for each subdomain.
So let's say you login with ssh [email protected] your home directory will be:
/www/...
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How to do central home directories and user accounts on Ubuntu?
I need to set up a network of twenty Ubuntu machines and a server. As it is now, the users have local accounts on the machines, but I want to have centralized user authentication, with all user info ...
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Best practice for defining user "HOMEDRIVE" "HOMEPATH" "HOMESHARE"
Is it considered a best practice to map domain users' "HOME" environment variables to a network path? If so, why?
By "HOME" variables, I am referring to:
%HOMEDRIVE%
%HOMEPATH%
%HOMESHARE%
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/home/vhosts/ or /var/www/
Some web servers I've come across use /home to store the site files:
/home/vhosts/www.example.com/
Others use /var like:
/var/www/www.example.com/
What's more clean and "Linuxy"? Should we all be ...
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NTFS Permissions for root share that houses Home Directories Windows Server 2008 R2
I am using the AD Profile Tab to Auto create Home Directories at \\server\home, so that the permissions are automatically created.
What should the NTFS permissions be for the actual folder that the ...
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Is using the AD home directory attribute to map the home drive really no longer a best practice?
I have read some articles that claim that using the Active Directory user home directory attribute to automatically map the home drive is a legacy method, deprecated, or not recommended. The second ...
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Add a Home directory for already created user when no direct root login available
I have a user account provided by client with unrestricted sudo access, but this user has no home directory. I want to create one, but I'm not sure how to go about it.
I tried logging in as my ...
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Centralize authentication and user's home folder
We have about 7 Linux servers and from time to time we setup a new one...
For each new install we have to create the same users and ask them to change their default passwords to new ones ... Plus for ...
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OpenLdap synchronize home directory between client and server
I have recently setup Ubuntu ldap client authentication on karmic and lucid desktop clients and the ldap server is running on an 10.04 LTS server and this is the link I followed for client setup and ...
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Mounting Linux user home directories on CIFS server
I was wondering about peoples experiences with mounting users home directories from an Active Directory authenticated CIFS server under Linux. Preferably the mount would be accomplished upon login ...
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How to setup Home Folders for 40 windows users
I am a developer (not a sysadmin) and need some help with best practices for setting up home folders.
Currently, I have 40 users that save all their 'my documents' kind of documents on their local ...
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Allow users to install certificates in their home directory?
Usually SSL certificates are installed system-wide (e.g. in /etc/ssl/certs). Is it possible to configure OpenSSL in a way that allows user to put certificates in their home directory (for example in ~/...
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How to tell start-stop-daemon to update $HOME and $USER accordingly to --chuid parameter
I'm trying to run a service that uses $HOME and $USER environment variables. I could set them in service itself, but that would only be a temporary solution.
Let's say I have a script test.sh with ...
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Why is the root home directory, /root not in /home? (looking for reasons other than /home is mounted on a different drive)
i know that one reason for /root not being in /home is that usually /home is mounted on a different disk and if it were to fail, we still want root to be accessible. What are some of the other reasons ...
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Changing Network Path of Offline Files
Many of our users have their Home folder set as Available Offline. Their Windows 7 laptops will not be back on our network for a few weeks. In the mean time, we're setting up new servers and ...
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Starting a mysql server in my ${HOME}?
I'm not root on my server (linux) and this server doesn't currently run a mysql server as a daemon.
Can I start a mysql daemon that would only work for my account and where the data/files would be ...
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User directory does not exist when logging in via ssh to a Synology NAS
On a Synology NAS with DSM 7.0 I have created through the Graphical UI a dedicated admin user (as recommended in Synology's setup procedure), then I have enabled ssh login and now I can ssh into the ...
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Replacing folder redirection with work folders
I am currently building a lab to get familiar with Microsoft's new "Work Folder" feature. I am looking for a way to abandon folder redirection and offline files.
So far I have one Windows 7 client ...
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Override template homedir on FreeNAS 11.3 joined in Active Directory
I've joined a FreeNAS 11.3 in an Active Directory and everything works as expected. But one feature that I'm really missing is some kind of override on mapped home directories for users.
By default ...
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sshfs file writes don't respect UID/GID mapping
I'm mounting my /home directory remotely using sshfs. Since UIDs and GIDs aren't the same on the server and client, I'm using idmap=file. Additionally, because of application requirements, I must ...
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It is fair to jail my SFTP users to their home directory?
roots. I'm running an Ubuntu 9.04 (home) Server on my LAN. I currently use it to store little web apps, photos, some subversion repository and stuff like that. My (few) users are friends of mine and I ...
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How to automate directory creation on NFS-Server?
I created and configured a test-environment of 3 virtual machines:
A FreeIPA server which provides krb5-authentication
A NFS-Server using server 1 to secure itself
A client that automounts home ...
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Difference between Roaming profiles, User Profile, Home Folder, and Redirected Folders?
On the network where I work, it appears at various times people have had roaming profiles, user profiles, redirected folders, and home folders.
What are the purposes and differences between these?
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Set Windows share as network home for AD-joined Mac users
we've been seriously scratching our heads on this issue for the last few days. It's now time to ask other professionals on possible solutions for this.
The situation and what we're attempting to do:
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Pitfalls to using Gluster as a home/profile directory server?
I was asking recently about options for divvying up access to file servers, as we have a NAS solution that gets fairly bogged down when our users (with giant profiles, especially) all log in nearly ...
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Open directory, external NFS file shares and automounter
This may be a big one.
I've set up Open Directory on Mac OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) with users to allow everyone on the network to logon to any client with these centrally stored users.
Before this ...
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Finding home directory of all users
I'm a software dev suddenly finding myself having to play SysAdmin.
Recently, I was given a box previously administered by somebody else, and this SysAdmin kind of just did what he wanted. My ...
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Lab User Accounts
I work for a school division (K-12). While I am most interested in what works well on the Mac, Windows and Linux administrators must face the same issue and have analogous solutions.
Most of our ...
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eCryptfs on ubuntu server : How to keep the home mounted without being over ssh?
I have a daemon program who need to read in a file who is saved somewhere in my home folder.
But every time I close my ssh connection, this daemon can't read the file because it appear that eCryptfs ...
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Central "/home" using SSHFS?
The standard way to setup a central "/home" directory on a Linux workstation is using NFS. The problem is that I don't like the lack of real security in NFS. So instead I want to try to use SSHFS. ...
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Slow network-home-folder use, many spinning beachballs
Xserve with 10.4.11 connected to Xserve RAID via FC. 208GB of 1.82TB available.
Xserve connects to HP 2848 Gigabit switch
Xserve houses network-home-folders for 14 users.
Clients (mac mini - intel ...
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Easy workflow for migrating home folders (from clients to OS X server)?
Let's say you have an office with 20 free range iMacs. One day they buy an Xserve to host network home folders.
What steps would you perform to move their local accounts, and local home folders, to ...
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What happens if /home directory gets 100 percent usage / Debian
My question is pretty simple but another opinion would be nice. We have Debian [2.6.18-6-686] machine, /home is mapped like this
df -h | grep home
/dev/mapper/local_disc-home
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Disallow an user to go up in the tree with pure-ftpd
I added an user to pure-ftpd with adduser -h /blah user, using busybox.
Unfortunately, he is able to go up in the tree and see the root folder.
How can I disallow this ?
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windows active directory profile regional
we are an organization with 40k users. This organization is composed of multiples structures.
We have one single forest Active Directory with flat DIT. We want to keep this AD in order to ...
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Strange Folder Redirection
I've recently inherited a client who has a folder redirection policy GPO and home paths specified through user attributes in AD. Now the strange thing is, I have literally no idea how it is working. ...
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Automate new AD user's home folder creation and permission setup
I know if we setup a base folder or a profile path in the Profile tab of an AD user, we can copy it and the folder creation and permission setup will be automated.
My problem is that not all my users ...
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How to mount windows "downloads" folder on a vhdx file
I'd like to know how I can mount a vhdx image as %userprofile%\Downloads folder in windows 10.
When I use the 'disk management' tool it doesn't let me click 'ok' when I've selected the 'downloads' ...
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SELinux stops pam_oddjob_mkhomedir from re-creating home dirs after deletion
I have a RedHat 7 server which is hooked up to LDAP and is supposed to create home folders automatically. In line with RedHat recommendation I use pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so. Everything works fine if the ...
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NFS server with out of memory
I have multiple machines sharing home directory via NFS share used by
6-10 users. All machines are used to run computational experiments including
the one with NFS server. Although it is very rare but ...
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CentOS 6: No separate /home partition
I do not want /home in a separate partition for a new CentOS 6 install. However, there no longer appears to be a "Review and Modify Partition Layout" in the text installer. How can I do this?
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Linux tmp-like dir in home folder?
I'd like to make a folder in my GNU/Linux home directory that behaves somewhat like TMPDIR (usually /tmp or /var/tmp); that is, a folder that deletes its contents on reboot or after they've started ...
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Server 2012 - Home Folder Share Permissions
I'm trying (without success) to get help with setting up User Home Folder\Directory permissions on server 2012. What I would like to know is what permission do I need so that each user can access his/...
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Unable to create Home Directory for LDAP Login
I have linked my server with LDAP for ssh login. I get the Following error while logging in using ssh.
Could not chdir to home directory /home/ldap/sharukhk: No such file or directory
shahrukh@...
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Script to reset home directory permissons on a windows share
Has anyone used a script to reset the permissions on a directory of Home Directories? I'm thinking some combination of FOR loops and CACLS to add an inheritable Modify permission to a folder using ...
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