Re: automounted home directories in chroot

[Sven Krahn <sven.krahn@gmail.com>]

On 7/7/05, Rik Theys <Rik.Theys@scarlet.be> wrote:
> 
> But on my production system, the home directories are automounted under /home.
> Simply bind mounting /home in the chroot does not work: the home directories
> are not available in the chroot :(.
> 
> Is there any way to fix this? Would it be possible to bind mount each home
> directory into the chroot? For a few users this would be OK, but I have about
> 300 users...
> 

This will certainly work, see also
http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/06/msg00361.html

If you really need to bind mount your home directories one by one you
could consider a small shell script in /etc/init.d/ which loops
through the user names and mounts all their home directories (without
putting them into /etc/fstab... maybe there are smarter approaches.
-- 
Best regards / Mit den besten Grüssen
Sven Krahn