[Discuss] Online vs. offline user ids

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> What I would like to do is to set the system up to use my LDAP
> credentials and my NAS home directory when online but use my local
> credentials when not connected to the corporate network (eg. When the
> VPN is not established). My preference would be to use the same user

There's a 1:1 mapping between user name and home directory on Unix so
you can't have one login name with two different home directories. The
simple solution is to have two login names with one UID and the same
primary group, and then set up /etc/nsswitch.conf to use files then ldap
so that the local login doesn't have to time out.

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Rich P.