Per user fstab

[Rashkae]

WipeOut wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to have a per user fstab file so that samba shares are 
> mounted at user login?
> 
> I know that I can create network connections from the "places" menu but 
> these don't work in all applications (Thunderbird and GFTP as examples) 
> so I need to go back to the old way of mounting the network shares into 
> the local file system but would like to manage it on a per user basis 
> rather than globally..
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 

Are we talking lots of users or just a few?

If it's just a few, I would mount them all in fstab, but restrict the 
permissions to that user only.. for example

-o uid=username,fmask=600,dmask=700

Mount them somewhere in the home directory.  If you don't want to mount 
them all at boot, I think you can add a users option and put a mount 
command in the user login profile.  Don't forget to use cifs instead of 
the old and busted smbfs.