Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2489 mails)

[Manne Merak <mannemerak@xxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 10:32 +0200, Manne Merak wrote:
>
>   
> > Well, this is not really what Im after.  I want to tell smbmount to use
> > my current logged-in linux username and password to login to shares.  So
> > aslong as I keep my local password synced with the windows network
> > password all is well.
> > The KDE control panel helps alot - I use it at the moment - It just
> > needs a check box saying - "Use local login credentials".  At fail it
> > should come up with login dialog.
> >     
>
> You can use a credentials file with the mount command. This file must
> contain the user's windows password for the share. If the windows
> password changes, this credentials file must be updated. That is not so
> nice.
>
> I have had my linux machine join an active directory. Next on my list is
> to see if I can get shares to mount (as you also want) if the user logs
> in to the linux machine using his Windows user name and password. I seem
> to recall reading something on this list a while back about trying to
> make this work. It involved pam_mount that controls mounting thing when
> a user logs in. Beyond that, I have nothing to tell. I long for a free
> day to sort this out. But those are few on the ground...
>
> So, hunt for into on pam_mount and CIFS. Maybe there is something there.
>
>   
The credentials file (as you said) is a pain to update constantly and
more suited for use in the fstab as described in the man pages.
Active Dir is ok, if you have one - but its just strange to me that
something like AD is "builtin", but not something simple like "Use local
login for CIFS shares"?






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