[CentOS] home on nfs

Sun Oct 29 19:15:05 UTC 2017
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

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. 

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>