[CentOS] How to relocate $HOME directory

[Keith Keller]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 06:58:36AM +0900, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
> 
> Well, yes and no. In case of Debian/Ubuntu, we need to modify apparmor
> settings (e.g., by changing "etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home" information)
> to get it right apart from just copying them and changing passwd file.
> 
> I wondered if CentOS has such an issue when relocating $HOME directories.

Not that I'm aware.  But you could always relocate the home directories
and then create appropriate symlink(s).

For example, if you're relocating everyone, you can move the users'
directories, then remove /home and create /home as a symlink to the new
top-level home directory (/export/blah).  Or, if your users will be in
various different places, you can keep /home and create a symlink for
each user (/home/user1 -> /export1/user1 ; /home/user2 ->
/export3/user2).

There are probably many other ways to deal with this; AFAIK CentOS
shouldn't have any difficulties with any of these situations.

--keith


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kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us

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