Re: [ANNOUNCE] autofs 5.0.0 beta1

[Moshe Kaminsky <kaminsky@math.huji.ac.il>]

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* Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> [03/05/06 20:45]:
> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Moshe Kaminsky wrote:
> 
> > * Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> [03/05/06 18:00]:
> > > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Moshe Kaminsky wrote:
> > > > Another question I have: I once asked if it's possible to run the 
> > > > actual mount command as the user trying to read the directory, 
> > > > instead of root. I was told that this is impossible in version 4. 
> > > > Will it be possible now?
> > > 
> > > Do you have a mount that will work for a user?
> > > 
> > > You can use the $USER substitution variable now to mount with a 
> > > "user=${USER}" option or $UID and $GID with "uid=${UID}" and "gid=${GID}" 
> > > in your map. Will that help?
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't think so. What I have in mind is that a user will be able to 
> > automount his home directory on a remote machine using sshfs. For this, 
> > that user has to actually run the mount command, so that his ~/.ssh is 
> > used.
> 
> The problem here is that mount(8) will only allow the "user" option if 
> an entry is present in the fstab which defeats the purpose of using 
> autofs.

Funny. It appears that you're right. I'm sure it used to work, though 
(maybe something changed in the kernel?)

Thanks,
Moshe

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