From ad5071bf6cfd5626eb3e03253e46d90dce54f68a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "jbranso@dismail.de" Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:30:26 -0400 Subject: add translator/usermux page * hurd/translator.mdwn: add link to usermux * hurd/translator/usermux.mdwn: describe usermux and add in an old irc log that gives an example that I have not tested. Message-ID: <20241016233039.17856-10-jbranso@dismail.de> --- hurd/translator.mdwn | 1 + hurd/translator/usermux.mdwn | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 hurd/translator/usermux.mdwn (limited to 'hurd') diff --git a/hurd/translator.mdwn b/hurd/translator.mdwn index 183e967e..720c3b3b 100644 --- a/hurd/translator.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator.mdwn @@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ The [[concept|concepts]] of translators creates its own problems, too: * [[fifo]] * [[term]] * [[checkperms]] +* [[usermux]] * ... 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 + + does that mean you could very easily use nfs to + automatically mount the home folders of users by just + accessing them? + that's usermux, yes + I am confused where is the difference ? + usermux is specialized in user names + i.e. it can translate it into a uid before giving it as + parameter to the underlying translator, for instance + what I meant is a little different, I think: + each user has his/her own computer with the disk + and all can access each others folders as if they were local + that could be done too + it's a bit like autofs on linux + settrans -ca nfs: /hurd/usermux /hurd/nfs server && cd nfs:/puplic + ^-- is that right? + youpi: but it can be done by anyone, not just root. + ArneBab: sure + giselher: I guess so + and that is a huge difference. It lowers a barrier, + hopefully to such an extend that many more users can utilize it. + but it'll distinguish different computers? + once the hurd has many more users, that is :) + s/but/but how + anatoly: by a level of directories + cd nfs:/foo.bar:/blabla - it's how it should be? + -- cgit v1.2.3