Re: Looking for a per user submount...

["Douglas E. Engert" <deengert@anl.gov>]

Ian Kent wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:11 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
>> I was looking for some sort of automounting for per-user subtrees.
>> Essentially I need to bind-mount on demand some per user (users are sql-based)
>> subdir like /path/<user>/mount_point, where /path/<user> is a true dir. 
>> I'm missing something or it cannot be performed using autofs without
>> adding each entry explicitly for every users ?

Have you looked at using an executable map? Something like in the master map:
/topdir   program:/etc/auto_per_user

/etc/auto_per_user:
#!/bin/sh
# $1 is <user>
echo ":/path/$1/mount_point"

> 
> Try something like.
> 
> In the master map:
> /topdir		/etc/auto.users
> 
> In auto.users:
> *	:/path/&
> 
> Clearly, the automount entries for future mounts aren't known until they
> are triggered, so they can't be seen no matter what options you use.
> 
> Ian
> 
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