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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] u9fs: dealing with user names that differ between unix and plan 9?
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Date: Fri,  5 Apr 2002 10:33:19 -0500
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> 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