"Douglas E. Engert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:27:09AM -0600, Douglas E. Engert wrote:
>>>
>>> Ian Kent wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:11 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
>>>>> I was looking for some sort of automounting for per-user subtrees.
>>>>> Essentially I need to bind-mount on demand some per user (users are 
>>>>> sql-based)
>>>>> subdir like /path/<user>/mount_point, where /path/<user> is a true 
>>>>> dir. I'm missing something or it cannot be performed using autofs 
>>>>> without
>>>>> adding each entry explicitly for every users ?
>>> Have you looked at using an executable map? Something like in the master 
>>> map:
>>> /topdir   program:/etc/auto_per_user
>>>
>>> /etc/auto_per_user:
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> # $1 is <user>
>>> echo ":/path/$1/mount_point"
>>>
>> 
>> Is this an autofs5-only feature? That could be useful I think...
>
> No, works with autofs 4 and on Solaris. On Solaris you don't use the 
> "program:"
> it checks the exec bits on the file instead.

You don't need to specify the mount type for the Linux automounter,
either.

Cheers,

Jeff

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