Linux Ubuntu Hard-link for Every User

I would like to create the following hard-link for every one of my users (including root):

Code:

/storage/backups/%u     /home/%u/.backups    none    loop    0    0

How can I generate all of these hard-links without hand coding them in fstab?

My first thought was to use the pam_mount module, but most of my users don't even have shell access, so I don't think that would work. I'm thinking I may have to write a small script that just runs at boot.

Thanks for any input.

 

I ended up just writing a small bash script to run at boot time. The script parses the passwd file for users with UID >= 1000 (ie non-system users). Then for each user, pulls their home directory from the same file and mounts the backups folder if it exists.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# Mount root user's backup directory
mount -o bind /storage/backups/root /root/.backups

# Mount remaining users' backup directories
USERS="$(awk -F ':' '{ if ( $3 >= 1000 ) print $1 }' /etc/passwd)"

for u in $USERS
do
        h="$(grep $u /etc/passwd | cut -d ':' -f 6)"

        if [ -d "$h/.backups" ]
        then
                mount -o bind /storage/backups/$u $h/.backups
        fi
done

 

Its probably the most practical way of doing things.
I guess automount might be coerced into doing it automatically, but its probably not worth the bother.