Authenticated home directory

A non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to execute operations comprising:

• receiving, at a computing system, a user login request;
• in response to said receiving the login request, mounting a temporary directory on a local file system of the computing system, wherein the temporary directory does not require authentication;
• determining whether a non-native directory associated with the user is mounted on the computing system, wherein the non-native directory is a non-native home directory associated with the user;
• in response to determining that the non-native directory is not mounted on the computing system, determining whether the non-native directory exists;
• authenticating the user using user credentials;
• and
• in response to said authenticating the user, and in response to determining that the non-native directory exists, mounting the non-native directory in the temporary directory, wherein the non-native directory is stored at a remote location from the computing system, wherein said mounting the temporary directory comprises executing a first script to mount the temporary directory with specified permissions so the temporary directory does not require authentication by the user.

A computing system comprising:

• A data storage device;
• and
• a processing device, coupled to the data storage device, to execute a non-native directory manager, wherein the non-native directory manager receives, at the computing system, a user login request;
• in response to said receiving the login request, mount a temporary directory on a local file system of the computing system, wherein the temporary directory does not require authentication;
• determining whether a non-native directory associated with the user is mounted on the computing system, wherein the non-native directory is a non-native home directory associated with the user;
• in response to determining that the non-native directory is not mounted on the computing system, determining whether the non-native directory exists;
• authenticate the user using user credentials;
• and
• in response to said authenticate the user, and in response to determine that the non-native directory exists, mount the non-native directory in the temporary directory, wherein the non-native directory is stored at a remote location from the computing system, wherein said mounting the temporary directory comprises executing a first script to mount the temporary directory with specified permissions so the temporary directory does not require authentication by the user.