Shared User Accounts under KDE/GNOME FC4 and/or FC5 Test2

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Jan 19 18:28:17 UTC 2006


STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
>>Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:

>>>What I have is NFS/NIS client Fedora workstations with a shared user
>>>account located on centralized file server. 
>>>So each workstation login ends up pointing to the same home 
>>>directory on the single NFS server.  Am I asking for trouble?

>>Can't speak for Gnome, but KDE should be fine.  In short, 
>>you're logging in the same user/homedir on multiple machines?

> I saw some problems doing this when bringing up Thunderbird
> to read mail.  Both machines wanted to use the same mail files.

Application-specific problem.  In general, don't run > 1 email client 
simulatenously per user.

Most (other) operatiions are fine.

-- Rex




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