diff --git a/homedirs.sh b/homedirs.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index f16eadf7e31ba9cb406c666b24bcec5a9bcd21aa..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/homedirs.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# script creates home directories for users in rgroup if those do not exist
-# and sets acl to allow monitoring user disk usage check
-
-set -e
-
-rgroup="g_linuxusers"
-home="/homes/"
-umask=0077
-skel="/etc/skel"
-monitoringuser="monitoring"
-
-if [ ! -d $home ]
-  then
-    mkdir $home
-fi
-
-rusers="$(getent group $rgroup | awk -F '[/:]' '{print $4}')"
-IFS=',' read -a ruserar <<< "$rusers"
-for ruser in "${ruserar[@]}"
-  do
-    if [ ! -d $home$ruser ]
-      then
-        mkhomedir_helper $ruser $umask $skel
-        setfacl  -m u:${monitoringuser}:rx $home$ruser
-    fi
-done
diff --git a/homesdirs.sh b/homesdirs.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2e4613f57a773e8fced51ea21ac533ab9246613c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/homesdirs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# script creates home directories for users in rgroup if those do not exist
+
+set -e
+# set -x
+# trap read debug
+
+
+rgroup="g_r_users"
+localrgroup="local_r_users"
+home="/homes/"
+work="/work/"
+rstudiodir=".rstudio"
+umask=0077
+skel="/etc/skel"
+monitoringuser="monitoring"
+
+if [ ! -d $home ]
+  then
+    mkdir $home
+fi
+
+# make sure that fresh credentials are pulled
+/usr/sbin/sss_cache -E
+
+unset rusers
+rusers="$(getent group $rgroup | awk -F '[/:]' '{print $4}')"
+rusers="$rusers,$(getent group $localrgroup | awk -F '[/:]' '{print $4}')"
+IFS=$',' read -r -a ruserar <<< "$rusers"
+for ruser in "${ruserar[@]}"
+  do
+    # create home directories
+    if [ ! -d "$home$ruser" ]
+      then
+        /sbin/mkhomedir_helper "$ruser" "$umask" "$skel"
+        setfacl  -m u:$monitoringuser:rx "$home$ruser"
+    fi
+    # symlink .rstudio directory to work storage
+    if [ ! -d "$work$ruser/$rstudiodir" ]
+      then
+        mkdir -m 770 -p "$work$ruser"
+        mkdir -p "$work$ruser/$rstudiodir"
+        mkdir -p "$home$ruser/$rstudiodir"
+        setfacl  -m u:"$monitoringuser":rx "$work$ruser"
+        setfacl  -m u:"$monitoringuser":rx "$work$ruser/$rstudiodir"
+        seufacl  -m u:"$ruser":rwx "$work$ruser"
+        setfacl  -m u:"$ruser":rwx "$work$ruser/$rstudiodir"
+        mount --bind "$work$ruser/$rstudiodir" "$home$ruser/$rstudiodir"
+        #ln -s $work$ruser/$rstudiodir $home$ruser/$rstudiodir
+        #chattr +i $home$ruser/$rstudiodir
+    fi
+done
+unset IFS