[systemd-devel] EXT :Re: How does the mount process of systemd-homed work?

[Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS)]

OK Thanks for clarifying.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> 
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:36 AM
To: Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS) <Kevin.Boyce at ngc.com>
Cc: Jörg Kastning <joerg.kastning at gmail.com>; systemd-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: EXT :Re: [systemd-devel] How does the mount process of systemd-homed work?

On Fr, 27.09.19 12:12, Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS) (Kevin.Boyce at ngc.com) wrote:

> Just curious how this works with automount and instances where the 
> user's home directory location has to be looked via an ldap query, 
> resolved, and nfs mounted.
>
> Is systemd-homed meant to replace automount's function, or is it only 
> for users have locally encrypted home directories with LUKS?

No it's not. Please have a look at the slides/the talk. THis is an addition, not a replacement, and you'd only use it if your focus are laptop users in a scheme where they are either entirely independent of an organization or in an "asynchronous distributed" mode of operation, i.e. where they connect to the organization's network every now and then, but not all the time. i.e. how most people use laptops:
sometimes inside the corporate network and sometimes outside of it. sometimes with and sometimes without network.

Lennart

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