I am trying to create a samba mount to be mounted automatically on a Redhat 7.2
machine.
I can mount the drive from the command line, but would like to have the drive mount on
boot.
I have added it to /etc/fstab, and get prompted for a password when I run mount on it
from the
command line. I know it is possible to pass the "password" option, or the
"credentials" option
to mount the drive. My problem with either of these paradigms is that I have to have
a password
in plaintext. The samba share I am mounting isn't a public share, and shouldn't be.
I'm not sure
how to get around this properly. My current entry in /etc/fstab looks like:
\\server_name\share_dir /mnt/dir smbfs auto 0 0
I know I could do:
\\server_name\share_dir /mnt/dir smbfs auto,password=foo 0 0
OR:
\\server_name\share_dir /mnt/dir smbfs
auto,credentials=/some/filename 0 0
where /some/filename looks like
username = bar
password = foo
I tried the credentials method, but couldn't access the file when it was chown
root.root, chmod 0600.
Even if I got the permissions proper I would have a password in plaintext. That
doesn't seem like a
great plan to me, but perhaps someone could convince me that if I do it properly it is
feasible.
It would seem ideal to have it be able to use some encrypted password, and I'm hoping
someone
could tell me a way to do that.
A subsidiary question about mounting a network drive on startup: Is the init process
smart enough
to only mount network drives once the network is up, which I beleive happens after the
mounts?
Thanks for the help.
Michael
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