[RH List] RE: Separate shell and www servers...

[Ed Wilts]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 01:17:31PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Ed Wilts wrote:
> 
> >The automounter might really help you here.  As the user logs in, the
> >home area will be automatically mounted (or subdirectories, one per
> >site perhaps).  The user can make all the changes, then the mount will
> >be automatically dismounted a minute or two later.
> > 
> >
>    How would that work though?  I'd still have to manually create the 
> folder on the remote www server, don't I?  

Yup.  The folder has to be on the www server anyway.  

> And permissions?  I haven't 
> (ever) looked into using the automounter, so I have no clue how that all 
> ties into one another.  

If you have the 2 servers in the same ldap or NIS domain, then the
permissions will be solved.  The user owns the files but they have group
read access to the data.

The automounter has its strenghts and weaknesses.  I use it at home to
automount my Windows system drive to backups.  It gets smbmount'ed,
rsync'd, and then automatically unmounted.

I believe that automount was invented to do stuff like mount home
directories off of a remote NFS server.  Red Hat does have autofs
documentation in both the Reference Guide and in the System
Administration Guide.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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