Re: Looking for a per user submount...

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

Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:27:09AM -0600, Douglas E. Engert wrote:
>>
>> 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"
>>
> 
> Is this an autofs5-only feature? That could be useful I think...

No, works with autofs 4 and on Solaris. On Solaris you don't use the "program:"
it checks the exec bits on the file instead.

See man page for automount(8) under map-type program
> 

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