Hi,
I mentioned this issue in reply to "CentOS 7.1 user login screen can't scroll up/down" but heard nothing.
We authenticate using NIS and our home directories are mounted via NFS.
Once a user logs into a CentOS7 workstation their username appears in the login screen 'user list'. I have disabled the list but notice that after a reboot running mount -l shows all previously authenticated users home directories are being mounted over NFS again automatically.
Is this normal? I have noticed some latency issues with the NFS and assume it is related, can anybody verify if this is a bug or a configuration error?
Surely they shouldn't re-mount until the user authenticates again?
thanks in advance,
Michael
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Michael Horne wrote:
Once a user logs into a CentOS7 workstation their username appears in the login screen 'user list'. I have disabled the list but notice that after a reboot running mount -l shows all previously authenticated users home directories are being mounted over NFS again automatically.
I don't believe that this is directly related to either gdm or CentOS 7: we have the same problem, using kdm and CentOS 6.6. We have over 200 systems and the problem happens on only about 10% of them, but of all of the machines on which it does happen, the machine is used as a workstation (the rest being headless compute servers). I can't see anything obvious that would explain the difference.
Steve
I also have some Fedora workstations that are experiencing the same symptoms. I noticed that the userlist is being pulled from my NIS server (when the connection is down the list does not appear). but I cannot work out why the home directories are automatically mounting at boot.
Does anybody have any ideas what is causing the automounts? where I can disable this functionality? logging in as root and running umount /home/each.previously.logged.in.user is a little tedious!
Where should I be asking about this if it's not a specific centos issue?
surely someone has noticed this in the past and found a solution?
Michael
On 10/04/15 13:26, Steve Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Michael Horne wrote:
Once a user logs into a CentOS7 workstation their username appears in the login screen 'user list'. I have disabled the list but notice that after a reboot running mount -l shows all previously authenticated users home directories are being mounted over NFS again automatically.
I don't believe that this is directly related to either gdm or CentOS 7: we have the same problem, using kdm and CentOS 6.6. We have over 200 systems and the problem happens on only about 10% of them, but of all of the machines on which it does happen, the machine is used as a workstation (the rest being headless compute servers). I can't see anything obvious that would explain the difference.
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