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diff --git a/hurd/translator/usermux.mdwn b/hurd/translator/usermux.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..84af45ed --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/usermux.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag stable_URL]] + +The word "mux" is reserved in the Hurd terminology to mean invoking +user specific translators based on the filename, which is what usermux +and [[hostmux]] do. While, `hostmux` invokes a +translator based on the host name, `usermux` invokes a +translator based on the user name. You should be able to use +`usermux` with [[nfs]]. + +## irc log 2010-08-25 + + <ArneBab> does that mean you could very easily use nfs to + automatically mount the home folders of users by just + accessing them? + <youpi> that's usermux, yes + <giselher> I am confused where is the difference ? + <youpi> usermux is specialized in user names + <youpi> i.e. it can translate it into a uid before giving it as + parameter to the underlying translator, for instance + <ArneBab> what I meant is a little different, I think: + <ArneBab> each user has his/her own computer with the disk + <ArneBab> and all can access each others folders as if they were local + <youpi> that could be done too + <youpi> it's a bit like autofs on linux + <giselher> settrans -ca nfs: /hurd/usermux /hurd/nfs server && cd nfs:/puplic + <giselher> ^-- is that right? + <ArneBab> youpi: but it can be done by anyone, not just root. + <youpi> ArneBab: sure + <youpi> giselher: I guess so + <ArneBab> and that is a huge difference. It lowers a barrier, + hopefully to such an extend that many more users can utilize it. + <anatoly> but it'll distinguish different computers? + <ArneBab> once the hurd has many more users, that is :) + <anatoly> s/but/but how + <youpi> anatoly: by a level of directories + <anatoly> cd nfs:/foo.bar:/blabla - it's how it should be? + |