From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 15:38:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996E216A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:38:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (mail.goinet.com [208.207.72.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293B243D49 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:38:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (localhost.goinet.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j58FcIcU030621; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:38:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from localhost (tshadwick@localhost) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j58FcIjs030618; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:38:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.goinet.com: tshadwick owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:38:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick To: Henry Miller In-Reply-To: <200506081034020925.0A87F2A2@mail.intradyn.com> Message-ID: <20050608103700.P23064@mail.goinet.com> References: <20050607190008.G64334@mail.goinet.com> <200506081008520122.0A70E510@mail.intradyn.com> <20050608101018.F23064@mail.goinet.com> <200506081034020925.0A87F2A2@mail.intradyn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mail.goinet.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptops, centralized authentication, and "roaming profiles" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:38:30 -0000 On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote: > > > On 6/8/2005 at 10:13 Tony Shadwick wrote: > >> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote: >> >> Oooh....good call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local > user, >> and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the network, >> presuming the pptp server was authing against OpenLDAP or NIS. Add a >> script to that login that mounts any NFS shares, and quite possibly > does a >> quick rsync against a server to back up the home directory. Problem > is, >> if they didn't "nicely" disconnect, then we don't know who's copy > needs to >> be updated, the local copy or the remote copy. :\ > > Can you setup subversion or some other. As a programmer I don't > backup my home directory at work because all my important work is kept > in CVS anyway. > (or it is a work in progress from today, and wouldn't be on a backup > if there was a crash) The CVS server is backed up, and I check in > often. > > Teaching management to use it will be hard. However if yours are among > those [few] who get it, they will love you for giving it too them. MS > Word doesn't allow diffs against documents, but perhaps you can teach > subversion to diff OpenOffice.org (or whatever you use) files. > > It is a long shot, but it solves your problems, and although more work > is also a net gain. > > I suppose I should give a plug for the company I work for as well: > Our rocketVault with continuous backups (basically rsync) can backup > your laptops when they are in the office. Since most laptop uses don't > roam between machines they don't need the shared home directory so much > as a backup. It is a completely different solution than the one you > are thinking of, but it might solve the laptop problem good enough, and > let you worry about other issues. (www.intradyn.com) > > Thanks, I don't mind the plug either. I'm working out and documenting solutions to these types of issues right now. It is still just theoretical, adn not an actual customer need, but I see it going that direction as soon as I try to implement it in a live environment. Do you guys have your software in the ports tree for easy installation? :)