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W. Michael Petullo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> described the package as follows:
License: lgpl
Other License: 
Package: pam_mount
System name: pam-mount
Type: GNU

Description:
Pam_mount, LGPLed and available for download at 
http://www.flyn.org/projects/pam_mount/download.html, is a PAM module that can mount 
volumes for a user session.  The module is aimed at environments with SMB (Samba or 
Windows NT) or NCP (Netware or Mars-NWE) servers that Unix users wish to access 
transparently. It facilitates access to private volumes of these types well. The 
module also supports mounting home directories using loopback encrypted filesystems. 
The module was originally written for use on the Linux operating system but has since 
been modified to work on several flavors of BSD. 



o Every user can access his own volumes 

o The user needs to type the password just once (at login) 

o The mounting process is transparent to the users 

o There is no need to keep the login passwords in any additional file 

o The volumes are unmounted upon logout, so it saves system resources, avoiding the 
need of listing every every possibly useful

   remote volume in /etc/fstab or in an automount/supermount config file. This is also 
necessary for securing encrypted

   filesystems. 



Pam_mount "understands" SMB, NCP, and any type of filesystem that can be mounted using 
the standard mount command. If someone

has a particular need for a different filesystem, feel free to ask me to include it 
and send me patches. 

Other Software Required:
Pam_mount requires a PAM system such as Linux-PAM or OpenPAM.

Other Comments:



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