On Wed, 3 May 2006, Moshe Kaminsky wrote:
> * Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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.
I'll think about it for a while.
Ian
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