I'm trying to use autofs to mount public_ftp dirs of users on an anonymous
ftp server under ~ftp/users/, so the public_ftp dir of the user becomes
available as ~ftp/users/user. Since anonymous ftp chroots to ~ftp,
symlinks are out of the question since those don't work in a chrooted
environment.
Since the linux loopback mount does not support directories, I wanted to
use NFS on localhost instead.
But.. autofs is 'smart' and recognizes that I'm mounting localhost or even
the name of eth0 so it symlinks:
> pwd
Current remote directory: /users
> dir
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 16 21:07 koos -> /home/koos/public_ftp
Which won't work:
> cd koos
koos: No such file or directory.
since that symlink is not valid for the ~ftp tree.
Is there a way to make autofs stop this symlinking ?
(Yes, I've digged manpages, /usr/doc and other places for the answer)
Koos van den Hout
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