[web:add translator pages 10/15] add translator/usermux page

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* hurd/translator.mdwn: add link to usermux
* hurd/translator/usermux.mdwn: describe usermux and add in an old irc
log that gives an example that I have not tested.
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@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ The [[concept|concepts]] of translators creates its own 
problems, too:
 * [[fifo]]
 * [[term]]
 * [[checkperms]]
+* [[usermux]]
 * ...
 
 
diff --git a/hurd/translator/usermux.mdwn b/hurd/translator/usermux.mdwn
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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag stable_URL]]
+
+The word "mux" is reserved in the Hurd terminology to mean invoking
+user specific translators based on the filename, which is what usermux
+and [[hostmux]] do.  While, `hostmux` invokes a user-specific
+translator based on the host name, `usermux` invokes a user specific
+translator based on the user name.  You should be able to use
+`usermux` with [[nfs]].
+
+## irc log 2010-08-25
+
+       <ArneBab> does that mean you could very easily use nfs to
+                 automatically mount the home folders of users by just
+                         accessing them?
+       <youpi> that's usermux, yes
+       <giselher> I am confused where is the difference ?
+       <youpi> usermux is specialized in user names
+       <youpi> i.e. it can translate it into a uid before giving it as
+               parameter to the underlying translator, for instance
+       <ArneBab> what I meant is a little different, I think:
+       <ArneBab> each user has his/her own computer with the disk
+       <ArneBab> and all can access each others  folders as if they were local
+       <youpi> that could be done too
+       <youpi> it's a bit like autofs on linux
+       <giselher> settrans -ca nfs: /hurd/usermux /hurd/nfs server && cd 
nfs:/puplic
+       <giselher> ^-- is that right?
+       <ArneBab> youpi: but it can be done by anyone, not just root.
+       <youpi> ArneBab: sure
+       <youpi> giselher: I guess so
+       <ArneBab> and that is a huge difference. It lowers a barrier,
+       hopefully to such an extend that many more users can utilize it.
+       <anatoly> but it'll distinguish different computers?
+       <ArneBab> once the hurd has many more users, that is :)
+       <anatoly> s/but/but how
+       <youpi> anatoly: by a level of directories
+       <anatoly> cd nfs:/foo.bar:/blabla - it's how it should be?
+
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