mount_smbfs and non-interactively passing a password to it

Hiroharu Tamaru tamaru at myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Sun May 20 16:49:28 UTC 2007


At Sat, 19 May 2007 22:25:27 -0400, Zane C.B. wrote:
> Is passing a password to mount_smbfs non-interactively possible? I
> know it can't accept it on STDIN by piping it into it.

mount_smbfs(8) :
     -N      Do not ask for a password.  At run time, mount_smbfs reads the
             ~/.nsmbrc file for additional configuration parameters and a
             password.  If no password is found, mount_smbfs prompts for it.

/usr/share/examples/smbfs/dot.nsmbrc :
[FSERVER:JOE]
# use persistent password cache for user 'joe'
password=$$1767877DF

I'm using -N for shares w/o passwords; I've never tried .nsmbrc password myself



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