CentOS - Aug 2013 - Autofs - can you mount only certain home dirs?

Does autofs take completed control of directories mentioned in
auto.master?   The examples with /home show that you can specify
individual users instead of * and &, but even then it seems to take
over the whole /home level so you can't see or add local subdirs.

I have a small group of users/hosts where I would like to at least
temporarily mix/match who is automounted or not.

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   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell at gmail.com

On 08/09/2013 08:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Does autofs take completed control of directories mentioned in
> auto.master?   The examples with /home show that you can specify
> individual users instead of * and &, but even then it seems to take
> over the whole /home level so you can't see or add local subdirs.
>
> I have a small group of users/hosts where I would like to at least
> temporarily mix/match who is automounted or not.
>
I am not sure what you are asking, but automounts are only mounted when 
you try to access them. I created symlinks to a separate folder (once I 
access a mount) so when I try to open symlink autofs mounts it for a 
given amount of time.

path from auto.server: /autofsmounts/server/
folder that will be created: extra
symlink (created after "ls /autofsmounts/server/extra"): 
/server/extra
->  /autofsmounts/server/extra

ls /server/extra will mount the server:extra for x seconds (--timeout x ).

If you place symlinks where you need them, you can have consistent path 
accessible from file managers. Maybe you can apply access limitations on 
a symlink (location) or something?



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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
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PL Computers
Serbia, Europe

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