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[Discuss] Online vs. offline user ids



I forgot about nsswitch. In any case, that was the way I was going to do
it.

On 05/09/2014 10:59 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> What I would like to do is to set the system up to use my LDAP
>> credentials and my NAS home directory when online but use my local
>> credentials when not connected to the corporate network (eg. When the
>> VPN is not established). My preference would be to use the same user
> There's a 1:1 mapping between user name and home directory on Unix so
> you can't have one login name with two different home directories. The
> simple solution is to have two login names with one UID and the same
> primary group, and then set up /etc/nsswitch.conf to use files then ldap
> so that the local login doesn't have to time out.
>

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