Re: Re: Rewrite and automount question

["Rose, John B" <jbrose@xxxxxxx>]

"What's automounter? Is that some process that mounts a user's home directory on a remote share or something?"

Yes. But only when it is requested. I.e. When you login via ssh, or access a web site via http whose content is in the remote filesystem, etc. You may refer to it as autofs.

From: Rich Bowen <rbowen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: "users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, August 8, 2014 3:24 PM
To: "users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Re: Rewrite and automount question

On 08/08/2014 11:59 AM, Rose, John B wrote:

mod_userdir does not seem to cause superfluous automounter attempts when an http request to a non-existent web address, http://website.com/~someuser, is received

Is there some way to implement that mechanism with http://website.com/someuser http requests for a nonexistent "someuser"?

What's automounter? Is that some process that mounts a user's home directory on a remote share or something?

I suppose you could query a list of valid users on server startup, and use that (via mod_macro or something?) to generate a list of Alias directives? Or possibly use a RewriteMap to do the same thing based on a list of users, although RewriteMap can be a bit of a performance bottleneck.

--Rich

From: <Rose>, John Rose <jbrose@xxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, August 8, 2014 9:51 AM
To: "users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Rewrite and automount question

We have experimented with using Rewrite to replace /~someuser with /someuser

However there is a problem with systems using automounter in the case of an http request for a non-existing http://someserver.com/someuser

Anyone have a way to implement the above without doing undesired automount attempts of a non-existent "someuser"?

Thanks

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