On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 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.
> 

In fact it gets worse.

How will you provide a consistent Unix UID <-> Windows UID mapping?

And on multiple machines for the same user, over OS re-install?

Ian

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