Re: sshfs and autofs

[Stef Bon <stef@bononline.nl>]

Marc Weber wrote:
>>> #  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.
>   
Wow, I'm just making clear that I do not know anything these agents. I'm 
just asking you about it,
but not doubting your abilities.
>  
>   
>> 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.
>   
Here again I'm trying to help here. I'm just trying to figure out (see 
above) how your setup works,
and I try to be of some help here. But it looks if you already know 
everything, and it looks as you
don't want to be helped. Be a little bit more specific and understand 
that somebody else does not
understand your setup immediatly,

Stef Bon
>   
>> 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
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