Jump to content United States-English
HP.com Home Products and Services Support and Drivers Solutions How to Buy
» Contact HP
More options
HP.com home
HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Configuration Management: HP-UX 11i Version 3 > Chapter 4 Configuring Users and Groups

Local versus Remote Home Directories

» 

Technical documentation

Complete book in PDF
» Feedback
Content starts here

 » Table of Contents

 » Index

Users can have their home directory on their own local system or on a remote file server. The advantage of keeping all users’ home directories on one file server is that you can back up all the accounts at one time.

If a user’s home directory is on a remote server, you may want to create a minimal home directory on the local system so that a user can still log into the local system if the server is down. For information on whether you should share users’ home and mail directories, see the HP-UX System Administrator’s Guide: Overview.

See “Adding a User to Several Systems: A Case Study” for steps to create a home directory on a remote system.

Printable version
Privacy statement Using this site means you accept its terms Feedback to webmaster
© 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.