No-password SMB mounts
Jason
jrd154 at psu.edu
Tue Jul 1 10:52:10 EDT 2003
Slav Inger <slavinger at yahoo.-nospam-.com> wrote in message news:<3EE772F0.4DB6B172 at yahoo.-nospam-.com>...
> Slav Inger wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm successfully using pam_krb5 to authenticate to the Win2k server from
> > SuSE Linux 8.2. Now I need to be able to mount a share from that
> > server, but without hardcoding the password in a config file. Is there
> > anything out there that can utilize the Kerberos 5 TGT for mounting SMB
> > shares? Thanks in advance.
> >
>
> In case someone will find this useful:
>
> I was able to combine pam_krb5 and pam_mount to create an environment
> where from my Linux box I was able to authenticate to the Win2k domain
> AND mount my home directory (SMB share) automatically without hardcoding
> the password or utilizing any of the Samba config files.
I would indeed find this very useful. I have been trying to do this
myself for sometime now. Please contact me and let me know how you
accomplished it.
Jason
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