Autofs question (try 2)

Hi,

The first message was cut short, sorry

I grabbed the auto.smb script for mounting samba/windows shares. One of the flaws is that I'd like to get around is that it must be configured as root and most importantly that I don't see who is requesting the mount. I was thinking along the line of mounting shares in /cifs/$USER/servers/share or simply mounting the share for the first user using the mount point (essentially single user machines anyway).

the auto.smb script is running as root and I printed some info in root.c at the revalidate

Jan 12 18:49:06 h6n2fls33o811 kernel: autofs4_root_revalidate, uid=505 name=10.1.1.4
Jan 12 18:49:06 h6n2fls33o811 automount[22233]: attempting to mount entry /cifs/10.1.1.4
Jan 12 18:49:06 h6n2fls33o811 kernel: autofs4_root_revalidate, uid=0 name=10.1.1.4
Jan 12 18:49:06 h6n2fls33o811 logger: uid=0(root) gid=0(root) grupper=0(root)
Jan 12 18:49:07 h6n2fls33o811 kernel: autofs4_root_revalidate, uid=0 name=10.1.1.4
Jan 12 18:49:08 h6n2fls33o811 last message repeated 10 times

and lots more from mounting with uid=0

Is there any simple way of passing the first uid to the automounter?

-- robin

The place for this is on the autofs list.

http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs

Short answer to your question is I don't think so. At least at the moment. I would have to check it out.

What version of autofs are you using?

onsdagen den 14 januari 2004 16.47 skrev [email protected]:

Ok, i'll report the question there. It is version 4.0.0 (Mandrake Cooker) in userland and whatever is in the 2.6.1 vanilla kernel.

-- robin