On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 23:31 -0400, William Prochazka wrote:

Hi,

> Hi, I am sort of new to autofs, but love it as it is truly great.
> We currently do all of our automounts through LDAP (works great), but
> I would love to do some programmatic mounts (improvements to the
> auto.smb script that is distributed with FC6).  I have made a number
> of improvements, but I would really like to know if there is a way of
> determining the user that is attempting to traverse into the then
> automounted directory.  I have some methods of guessing the info, but
> they are just guesses.  Since the script is run by the service, $USER
> is worthless.  Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks and great
> work! 

This was a problem with with version 4 as that information wasn't
recorded in the request that came from the kernel and so it couldn't be
done.

In version 5 the kernel module sends uid as well and it is used to set
several environment variables, $USER is one.

Ian


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