[debian-lan-devel] Roaming workstation offline home directory

[Andreas B. Mundt]

Hi Afif,

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 08:46:20PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:

> I was wondering how the offline home directories work for the roaming
> workstation profiles. I couldn't find anything in the DebianLAN FAI
> configuration regarding this (but I may have missed something). I saw this
> statement on the wki:
>
> Users have a local home directory at /home/... where they can drop data for
> offline use or which they can synchronize with the Debian-LAN home
> directory.
>
> The only thing I noticed about the roaming workstations is that the
> authentication credentials are cached with sssd.

The idea is the following:  When online, the user's home is mounted
from the server at '/lan/mainserver/home0'.  Offline, the local
'/home' is bind mounted at '/lan/mainserver/home0' [1].  When online,
the user can synchronize or copy files from
'/lan/mainserver/home0/USER' to '/home/USER', and use these files when
offline.  Again online, he finds his offline work in '/home/USER'.

Best regards,

     Andi


[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/debian-lan.git/tree/fai/config/scripts/ROAMING/20-fstab