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you can always change the mapping code to
read in a mapping table.


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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:33:19 -0500

> I have set up u9fs on a linux machine as indicated in the README,
> and it works, when my plan 9 username is the same as my linux username.
> When there is no linux user with the same name as the plan 9 user
> that does the mount (attach), it fails. Is there a way to specify,
> from the plan9 side, what linux user name should be used when doing
> the mount (attach)? (like the -l option of rlogin)

No, sorry.

> It seems that the -u command line option of u9fs can be used as
> a kind of workaround: it allows me to choose one single linux user
> name onto which then all plan 9 users will be mapped, correct?

Yes.

Russ
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