[SSSD-users] Re: Setting a different $HOME for a specific LDAP user? (Or other solution for dev.)

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:46:14AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > > I've just come across SSSD and have managed to set it up for use against > our LDAP server. Yay! > > We have LDAP set up for user and group management, and all users' homes > live on an NFS share. This is fine for me most of the time, except for > on the machine where I do development; I really don't like to run the > compiler against files on NFS! > > I see three options > > 1. Use a local user, with a local $HOME, for development. > 2. Create a local dir on the dev machine and use it for all development. > 3. Give the LDAP user a local $HOME on the dev machine. > > I looked into 3 a bit and found `override_homedir`. It works fine, but > then *all* users on the dev machine get a local $HOME. Is it possible to > override $HOME for a specific user only? > > /M > > PS I'd also be most interested in hearing if there are any other > solutions to this problem. Yes, in recent versions, you can use the sss_override tool: https://jhrozek.fedorapeople.org/sssd/1.13.3/man/sss_override.8.html With a colleague of mine we are working on a blog post so that more users know about that tool. We started here: http://piratepad.net/FssgCbKcHm but the content is not ready yet, hopefully in a couple of days it will be.