Home directory hosted using NFS mount in corporate environment

Hi AliH1P,

Thanks for the thoughtful reply and I agree with your conclusion. I am glad that I asked the question. https://www.netapp.com/ is a software and hardware appliance that is hosted locally at our site and provides highly available network attached storage. It can be configured for all types of storage needs. As you mentioned, I do not want to trust my 1Password data on at rest in that system.

At the same time, I have a lot of important data in 1Password that I don't want to lose access to.

OPTION 1: I could create a local home directory for my user account in /home.local/my_username. I could then create a 1Password folder in that location with permissions of 700. I could then symlink that location to /home/my_username/.config/1Password. The NetApp should see that as a broken symlink since it is across filesystems. That way it would not save any data in that directory. Do you think that would work? Are there any other locations in my home directory that would expose my 1Password data?

OPTION 2: A more nuclear option is to use a purely local account where my home directory is fully in /home.local. But, that would break my current development workflow. I am sure I could find workarounds though.

Thanks again.