Re: mount at boot

well, in our case we want to use SFS for grid computing- we have many
distributed machines that do computations which need access to certain
files.  The jobs run as a particular user on the machines, so the /sfs
directory only needs to be visible to that user.  however, the machines
aren't administered by us, so they may get rebooted at any time.  so we
just need the /sfs to get umounted nicely when the machine reboots (via rc
scripts is fine) and then remounted when the machine reboots so that it is
visible to our code.

i guess this long explanation amounts to a simple reponse to your email:  
what is the recommended way to mount without explicitly typing a password?

thanks-
		-s



On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Kevin Fu wrote:

> >I'm fairly new to sfs.  Is there a recommended way to automatically login
> >and mount an sfs server for all users at boot time, and to logout and
> >unmount it safely at shutdown?
> 
> The contents of /sfs are different for each user, depending upon what
> servers each user mounts.  So I'm not sure if your request makes sense
> under these semantics.  SFS automounts file systems upon request of a
> self-certifying path.
> 
> Do you mean that you want users to have access to their individual
> homedirs over SFS without typing a password?  Or that you want some
> admin user to have access to all the SFS homedirs of all the users
> automatically?
> 
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> Kevin E. Fu ([email protected])
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