On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Although I am comfortable mounting smbf/cifs shares for myself, as root, > I am trying to determine the optimal way to have users get specific > mounts, without having to put in any user account details in fstab, and > specific mounts for specific users. I know I can create a .credentials > file in each users /home/user folder and point to that in fstab. But I > dont want to have multiple lines in fstab for each user. > > Can a mount line be added to a users bash_profile and using a hidden/hashed > > credentials file? or something similar so that only those mounts needed > for any particular user are mounted when they log in. Rather than in > fstab and mounted for everyone? > > > Or maybe there is another way to securely create different windows share > mounts for different users without having them in fstab? > > CentOS 5.3, x86 > Samba: 3.033375 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >
If you have a Kerberos realm set-up, you could leverage that so that no password is needed. Active Directory uses Kerberos if that is available. A user on Debian can call smbmount without having to be root. Robert LeBlanc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
