shell environment when mounting

shell environment when mounting

[Stef Bon]

Hello,


I'm using a construction where the automounter is started when a 
sessions starts, using ConsoleKit.
Look at:
http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/fuse-workspace/index.php


I'm using the feature of ConsoleKit to run a script/program when a 
session is added, and when it's removed, in
/etc/ConsoleKit/run.d.

Now here some environmentvariables are set by ConsoleKit, indicating the 
user, the seat and the session, and more.

Part of my construction is a wrapper shell script around mount.cifs, 
which calls mount.cifs with the right parameters.
It's a sh script. Now I've found out that the environmentvariables set 
by ConsoleKit are still set when this script is run.
It looks like the mount.md5key (this is the name of the wrapper) shell 
script is using the same environment as when the
automounter is started.

Is this right??

Stef Bon

Re: shell environment when mounting

[Ian Kent]

Stef Bon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I'm using a construction where the automounter is started when a
> sessions starts, using ConsoleKit.
> Look at:
> http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/fuse-workspace/index.php
> 
> 
> I'm using the feature of ConsoleKit to run a script/program when a
> session is added, and when it's removed, in
> /etc/ConsoleKit/run.d.
> 
> Now here some environmentvariables are set by ConsoleKit, indicating the
> user, the seat and the session, and more.
> 
> Part of my construction is a wrapper shell script around mount.cifs,
> which calls mount.cifs with the right parameters.
> It's a sh script. Now I've found out that the environmentvariables set
> by ConsoleKit are still set when this script is run.
> It looks like the mount.md5key (this is the name of the wrapper) shell
> script is using the same environment as when the
> automounter is started.
> 
> Is this right??

Programs do generally inherit the environment within which they are
started. So yes, of course.

Ian