[Decaf-devel] Re: [pam_mount] unionfs support for pam_mount

Jan Engelhardt jengelh at linux01.gwdg.de
Wed Dec 13 20:37:39 CET 2006


>> >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?
>>
>> Feel free to send patches ;)
>
>I probably would have, but it’s not needed. unionfs _does_ work with
>mount options, so pam_mount is already ready to do it. I documented that
>on 
>http://wiki.debian.org/DeCaf/PAMSetup

In fact, we even have a "fusemount" option already. (So as to easily
bend fuse calls to drop the effective uid, so volumes are mounted as
the intended user, since fuse does not know something like -o uid=
from CIFS.)


	-`J'
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