"Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane, JXVS" <todd.denniston at navy.mil> writes: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: hw [mailto:hw at adminart.net] >> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 12:02 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] home on nfs >> >> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> writes: >> >> > On Oct 28, 2017, at 23:15, hw <hw at adminart.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> writes: >> >> >> >>>> On Oct 27, 2017, at 10:21, hw <hw at adminart.net> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> Hi, >> >>>> >> >>>> I have the home directory of a user on an nfs server and mount it on a >> >>>> client. When the user logs in, they end up in the root directory rather >> >>>> than in their actual home directory and need to cd into it. >> >>>> >> >>>> The user can read and write to their home directory, so it kinda works >> >>>> fine --- but only kinda. When the user starts emacs, some of the >> >>>> settings in ~/.emacs are not applied, but the saved desktop is being >> >>>> loaded. >> >>>> >> >>>> Both machines are running Centos 7.4. What could be wrong with the nfs >> >>>> mount? >> >>> >> >>> Sounds like you haven’t set the selinux Boolean for NFS homedirs. >> >>> setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1 >> >> >> >> Oh, indeed, I didn´t know that I need to do that. >> >> >> >> Do I do this on the client or on the server or both? >> > >> > Just the client. >> >> Thanks, I tried that and it works now :) >> > > If you find that the problem comes back in the near future (or perhaps > check as a preventative), you should look to see if the client machine > is using the 'soft' mount option instead of 'hard,intr' on the home > dirs. A few years ago it took me better than a month to figure out > that some other admin had (on some machines) thought that using soft > would cause less waiting on reboots, but we found that the side effect > on home directories was corrupt data and strange issues on user > login. (soft can work OK if there is a longish timeout between mount > request and mount use, but if it is quick like autofs at login, then > soft falls down.) Thanks for the warning --- I´ll change it accordingly for just in case. Corrupted data is bad ...