$USER variable in AppleVolumes.system?


Subject: $USER variable in AppleVolumes.system?
From: William R. Dickson (wdickson@nwnexus.com)
Date: Wed Jul 02 1997 - 17:01:39 EDT


(A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups:
comp.protocols.appletalk)

I'm wondering if this kind of thing is possible with netatalk:

Say I've got lots of users, so many that I don't want to be creating a
.AppleVolumes file in each of their home directories. For the sake of
argument, let's pretend that five is such a large number.

Now, I want every user, when s/he connects, to see two things in the
chooser -- the user's home directory, an the user's personal web
directory. (Again, for the sake of argument, linking the web directory
into the home directory isn't possible, due to a hypothetical complicated
nfsmount issue.)

Say I have the real directories:

/www/users/andrea
/www/users/bob
/www/users/chris
/www/users/deanna
/www/users/effie

Can I do something like this in AppleVolumes.system or AppleVolumes.default?:

/www/users/$USER "User WWW Directory"

I know I can't do that exactly, because I tried it and it didn't work. Is
there another way?

-Bill

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