On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 17:02:08 +0100 hw <hw at adminart.net> wrote: > 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 :) An alternative (quite possibly less mature) is to export the nfs mount with "security_level" and make sure to mount with version 4.2. This will instead make NFS handle the security contexts and allow the nfs mount to work as any other selinux compatible file system. Afaict this should work on 7.4 but I've only ever tried it on Fedora. /Peter