"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 _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
