On 09/02/2013 12:41 PM, Gordon Lack wrote: > I am wondering about my auto.smb patch (see http://www.spinics.net/lists/autofs/msg00402.html). > > I can add a comment about that link... > > >>> OTOH, setting the uid to >>> the caller is definitely what should be done, IMHO. > > That only makes sense if the result is only going to be visible to that one individual. > > Linux is a multi-user system, so having automounts that depend on who made the request to do the mount makes no sense if the result is going to be visible to everyone. > I've not seen a system whereby different people have different views > of what is mounted. I'm not sure what you mean. Users can create user-specific CIFS mounts today with "sudo mount -t cifs -o sec=krb5,cruid=$UID,...". The intention of my patch is just to enable autofs to create such mounts. It would certainly be reasonable to setup autofs such that a separate mount point is used for each user, but that's a configuration issue. In as properly configured environment, the "multiuser" option of mount.cifs can be used to deal with local multiuser/permission issues. Regards Martin P.S.: You are correct that there is an issue with autofs caching the list of mount points if the list of mountable shares returned by a server depends on the credentials provided. AFAICS that can be fixed by configuring the such that all users can see the same shares (but not necessarily access/mount them all). > > ________________________________ > > This e-mail was sent by GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited > (registered in England and Wales No. 1047315), which is a > member of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. The > registered address of GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited > is 980 Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9GS. > -- Dr. Martin Wilck PRIMERGY System Software Engineer x86 Server Engineering FUJITSU Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 33106 Paderborn, Germany Phone: ++49 5251 525 2796 Fax: ++49 5251 525 2820 Email: martin.wilck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Internet: http://ts.fujitsu.com Company Details: http://ts.fujitsu.com/imprint -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
