On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > On Saturday 05 June 2004 17.52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > 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. > .. > > How will you provide a consistent Unix UID <-> Windows UID mapping? > > And on multiple machines for the same user, over OS re-install? > > Ian > > Assuming that is a problemm... It's not for me. > > It's not an autofs problem. It's the user space problem to figure that. > Winbind is one possibility, but other's are possible. In some settings u can > simply use the same name and assume the same name goes for windows. In other > cases you can use a mapping table in the script that automount calls. Autofs > should just provide the local uid,gid from the calling process.
The main point was that the uid and gid is not available to autofs without kernel and userspace modification which will break backward compatibility. For userspace a new mount module would need to be developed from scratch. A fair amount of work. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
