Yes. That is what the manpage says. I'm not sure what you are trying to say
with it. I think I am not using it as a shell ... Can you explain?

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 9:39 PM, laudarch <lauda...@host.sk> wrote:

> authpf is not a shell
>
> On 2015-08-16 19:13, Tom Van Looy wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm using authfp to secure an NFS server (authpf required before mount).
>> This works when I use it interactively, but not when I try to background
>> the SSH session (ports stay closed).
>>
>> I want to use this in a shell script. Something like this:
>>
>> ssh -fN nas_u...@puffy.home.ctors.net
>> SSH_SESSION=$!
>> sudo mount -t nfs puffy.home.ctors.net:/home/nas ~/nas
>> # copy files ...
>> sudo umount ~/nas
>> kill $SSH_SESSION
>>
>> The SSH command is in the ps output and in netstat on both sides (client
>> and server) but the mount won't work (timeout) because the firewall is not
>> changed by authpf.
>>
>> I compared ssh -vvv output from the regular ssh session with the
>> background
>> ssh and see that they are identical until "Authenticated to
>> puffy.home.ctors.net". After that line I see that the regular session
>> prints stuff about "ignoring env ..." and the background one prints
>> "forking to background". When the sessions are closed they both print that
>> data was transfered (send/receive) etc.
>>
>> Is this something that can work and if so, what am I doing wrong of how do
>> I debug this any further? I'm stuck. :-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tom Van Looy

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