[debian-edu-commits] debian-edu/upstream/ 20/71: Improve documentation.

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

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commit c3a909fec6098d8b2bf025f69acc70b82f62057c
Author: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>
Date:   Sun May 2 08:37:51 2010 +0000

    Improve documentation.
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 debian/README | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/README b/debian/README
index d679e48..bb4aa68 100644
--- a/debian/README
+++ b/debian/README
@@ -3,10 +3,17 @@ libpam-localoffline
 
 PAM configuration to enable add users able to log in, presumably using
 some network directory information like NIS or LDAP, and when they log
-in a local users with the uid and gid information from the networed
+in a local users with the uid and gid information from the networked
 directory is created, and their password is cached on the local disk
 to allow them to log in also when disconnected from the net.
 
+For sites using a path to home directories on the form
+/site/hostname/partition/username/, it would be confusing if the local
+home directory with that path showed up on the local machine and not on
+the expected server.  To avoid this problem, the local user is created
+with /home/username/ as the home directory, allowing the remote file system
+to be automounted on /site/hostname/partition/.
+
 This package depend on pam_python from
 http://www.stuart.id.au/russell/files/pam_python
 

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