On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Dimitry V. Ketov wrote:

> Hi, autofs hackers!
> 
> Is it possible with the current autofs protocol to export UID of (mount)
> requesting process to the userspace automount daemon? If not, I guess
> that it is rather trivial feature enhancement request ;)
> The matter of this RFE is need to mount smbfs shares on behalf of
> requestng users, with their own passwords...

This has been raised before.

I'd like to do it but it isn't trivial so it's in the wait queue.

It's dificult because it requires that the packet which is used to 
communicate with the daemon will need to be changed. This will break 
backward compatibility with other versions.

Ian

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