Subject: $USER variable in AppleVolumes.system?
From: mt@carthage.edu
Date: Wed Jul 02 1997 - 21:51:13 EDT
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>
>I'm wondering if this kind of thing is possible with netatalk:
>
>Say I've got lots of users, so many that I don't want to be creating a
>..AppleVolumes file in each of their home directories. For the sake of
>argument, let's pretend that five is such a large number.
>
>Now, I want every user, when s/he connects, to see two things in the
>chooser -- the user's home directory, an the user's personal web
>directory. (Again, for the sake of argument, linking the web directory
>into the home directory isn't possible, due to a hypothetical complicated
>nfsmount issue.)
>
>Say I have the real directories:
>
>/www/users/andrea
>/www/users/bob
>/www/users/chris
>/www/users/deanna
>/www/users/effie
>
>Can I do something like this in AppleVolumes.system or
AppleVolumes.default?:
>
>/www/users/$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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Bill --
I know you can't use "$USER", but I think you can use "~/". Of course,
that only gets you the user's home directory, but at least that's half
of what you wanted.
-- Mark
Mark Tomory
Carthage College
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