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Partially Shared Home - Automatically Link Files in Home - Admin Guide
Shared homes create a set of problems depending on how much a software can handle running multiple instances of the same software, maybe with different version, on different hosts, probably at the same time. Still it is useful to have certain tool settings always with you.
Thus we suggest to have per default a local home drive base::local_homes: true, but having only selectively shared software configuration.
That configuration needs then to be on a file share, best the home drive (U:).
To ensure the tools find their configuration at the expected place, symlinks need automatically to be created which point to the shared version.
On the homde drive (U:) therein is also the personal configuration file of this feature (linux_home_links.yaml or .linux_home_links.yaml).
The mountpoints can be found in ~/network-drives.
The U: drive is there named home, while the rest keeps their original share name.
This feature is enabled by default on workstation type systems starting RHEL9. It can be controlled in Hiera with:
user_session::automatic_links_in_home: true
To the User Guide. This features depends on the "Windows Drives in Home Directory" feature.
Note this does not work for RHEL7.