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Real-world examples from a researcher in CCB
Ubuntu and Mac OS, Feb. 2015
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Desires auto-mount.
Questions from ChemIT regarding this need:
- If on a laptop, what is the expected failure mode when system tries to auto-mount when off-campus, before VPN has been started, following user logging into their laptop's account?
- And, is it OK to have user's cluster's p/w in clear text (within fstab), even if only accessible by root?
This is what user tried, but it did not work:
He tried adding the following line to /etc/fstab (for automatic mount):
sshfs#[NetID]@[machinename].chem.cornell.edu:/home/[NetID] /home/whateever/youwant fuse defaults,idmap=user 0 0
He reports having to run the "sudo mount -a" command (to execute mount of all of /etc/fstab). This method first asks for the user's cluster password (i.e. it disregard the .ssh key), it then mounts the whole thing inaccurately, so that privileges show as "?".