This Manual describes the AutoMount Daemon, a simple automounter for use under Linux. It is not intended to be a perfect all purpose program, but to fit my particular need that arose from the installation of a server running under Linux in an environment, where most of the time no administrator is present. What the program offers is quite simple to explain: Upon insertion of a CDROM (or whatever...) the volume is mounted. It can be unmounted by a normal user using another program called ``eject''. This was inspired by the Solaris automounter. If someone now says, that there is a package that allows a normal user do issue ``mount'' and ``umount'' commands, one should consider, that in this network there are only DOS-clients (argh...) and people who would be quite concerned if they were told to write commands like ``mount -r -tiso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom''.
Setup should be easy even for non-experienced users. In case you just plan to use it for CDROM drives and floppies without polling, you should be able to start with the supplied sample configuration file right away. Refer to chapter 2 for detailed instructions.
Please note that I still consider this to be in (late) beta status. This does not mean that the versions released are unstable, but that it is some kind of public review.