Where to set XDG_CACHE_HOME?

[Marek Greško]

Hello,

NFS homedirs are mounted using autofs. I suppose it is on first access. If I would like to bind mount local dirs to home, it should be done per user and after the NFS is mounted. I see no feasible solution to perform this way.

Marek




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pondelok 23. marca 2026, 12:19, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> napísal/a:

> Let's rewind for a second, and ask where and when those NFS homedirs are mounted. I suppose this is not done on-the-fly when users log in, that this is so for a reason, and that the whole infrastructure is already designed such that new user homedirs are created with at least the basics in place for them to work.
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> That could include making the default XDG_CACHE_HOME location a symlink to a path that will resolve locally on every system from which users can log in.
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> My other suggested solution, a "bind mount" could be done dynamically, and since this needs to be done with privileges it might be easier to do from a login manager, without running into race conditions. I just don't know if doing a "mount bind" on host A will still allow the same action to take place on host B or C (supposing users can log in from multiple workstations).
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