Re: sshfs and autofs

[Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>]

> > #  ls -l /auto
> > ls: cannot access /auto/mlin: Permission denied
> > total 0
> > d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? mlin
> >   
> Well the question marks mean that glibc cannot figure out the 
> permissions. This means probably
> that the mount has not been succesfull.
It was. The user can access it. But root can't.

> Does this work. I do not know anything about ssh agents.
Than you should start to learn at least some basics.
An ssh-agent is a process which keeps your "passwords" in memory to
unlock the .ssh/id_* keys.
Of course it works. I'm using it.
 
> I n my construction I'm using the following command:
> PasswordAuthentication='no' -o IdentityFile="$homedir/.ssh/id_dsa" -o 
This id_dsa, is it protected by password?
If you use google to find out how to use automount and sshfs you'll find
many instructions about how to generate a key with empty password and
how to configure automount. However using an empty password is not an
option for me.

> the directory /mnt/mount.md5key/%USER%
> is owned by the user and has permissions 700, so no other user except 
How do you assign these permissions 700 ?
I didn't suceed

Marc Weber