On Monday 07 June 2004 18.06, Mike Waychison wrote: > My real problem with this RFE is that there is no indication on how you > are planning to acquire the user credentials. Does it matter if you know it *is* possible. My idea is to do as I do today, but with an extra lookup based on uid. That is the script executed by automount would
> For instance: > - how are you going to acquire terminal information with just a uid/gid > pair? Simple case: don't need it. Assume the user has entered all info in a file named ~uid/.autofs/credentials host, share, remoteuid,remotepass I'm a samba user so I could think of using Smb4K or similar to set up Or like the gpg agent that can bring up a window. ~uid/.autofspipe But I'd simply use the first version to start with. > - how are you going to handle the case where there was no terminal? > - what about when there was no terminal, but there were X resources > available? (kernelspace wouldn't know anything about this at all..) > Shouldn't this RFE also include some proposal for how you are going to > ensure that only a single uid ever attempts access to the automounted > directory as well? (if needed?) Well, uh.. ..good point. The directory can be shared if the permissions allow it so there is no absolute requirement for always separating users (but probably that is the common need). But that's more of an extra feature for those file systems that support this. I was thinking of ~uid/Network\ Neighborhood, but then autofs cannot do /home/*/Network\ Neighborhood, I think. Come to think of it.. There's a product called Sharity that does this. Actually it seem to do exactly what I want for CIFS without automount. Everything gets listed under /CIFS. The mount deamon talks to an agent running on the user's terminal, X or wherever the user decides and prompts for credentials if necessary. If no agent is running its can read info from a pre-setup file or access will fail. -- robin _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
