[Decaf-devel] unionfs support for pam_mount

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

sorry, I should have read more about unionfs first, it can be controlled
by mount options, so no change to pam_mount is needed. Sorry for the
noise.

Greetings,
Joachim

Am Mittwoch, den 13.12.2006, 12:59 +0000 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> Hi Jan, hi list,
> 
> for a project I’m working on right now (DeCaf[1], a Debian distribution
> for internet cafes with focus on developing countries), I’d like to
> mount the home directory of the user as a unionfs[2], consisting of a
> read-only template directory and a tmpfs mount for the changes, which
> should be discarded after the user logged out.
> 
> I’d like to re-use as much as code as possible, so obviously, pam_mount
> is the primary candidate to implement that, but since unionfs mounts can
> not be controlled my mount directly, special support (similar to
> smbmount etc.) would be needed.
> 
> Would it be possible to include that support in pam_mount?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joachim
> 
> 
> PS: Please keep the decaf-devel list in CC.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DeCaf
> [2] http://www.am-utils.org/project-unionfs.html
> 
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