Hi jr On 04/06/10 20:36, jr wrote: > hi Tim, > >> This is my first toe-dip into pam. > > I don't know pam_mount, and PAM-1.1.1 (which I've installed on a > slackware box) doesn't include a 'mount' module and doesn't use xml > files; this PAM is configured via files in the '/etc/pam.d/' location. > > can you tell me/us more about pam_mount (version, link to, etc)? >
V0.44 on Debian Lenny, home page at http://pam-mount.sourceforge.net/ > and why do you need to use pam_mount to mount CIFS shares? > Well at present I'm using a script which calls mount.cifs. This is on a server which serves out shares to a few Windows machines via Samba, and also is itself a multiuser Linux box (through XDMCP), where those same shares are served out to users home directories (this works really well, as accesses to the underlying files are all through a common Samba interface). The only irritation is that when the server is rebooted, Linux users must run the share mounting script. This is pretty rare (only when there's a kernel update every few months). The shares do remain mounted between logins, so the pain isn't great. But pam_mount deals with this by providing authentication to samba and proceeding to mount the shares at login). I can see, at one level, why pam_mount requires SSH password authentication, because it requires the password to authenticate to the Samba shares, but I would have thought it would be possible to get over this in some way (maybe Kerberos has a role to play). Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-07-06 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
