It might. Why don't you try it and tell us what happens? :) I'm also curious as to what would happen to users' ability to mount file systems that have "user" specified on them in /etc/fstab.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kern, Thomas Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: linux seeing windows files Does /etc/fstab have to be world-readable? Will a linux system boot up if /etc/fstab is set to 0500 and owned by root? /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Troth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:58 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: linux seeing windows files > > > > Post, Mark K wrote: > > > According to the Samba team, the preferred method is now this: > > > mount -t smbfs //server/share /mountpoint -o > > > username=abcde,workgroup=etc... > > One of the options being "password=". > > > Ok that works great, except why am i being asked for a password > > and how do i setup the mount to be permanent...like when i > > shutdown and restart Linux the mount will be there > > You can include "password=". Obviously that is otherwise a no no. > But the problem is that you need to pass credentials. Perhaps > someone else knows how to make it work w/o scribbling the password > into your /etc/fstab file. I think I understand WHY you get prompted > but I surely don't know how to stop it. > > -- R; >
