mount_smbfs and non-interactively passing a password to it

[Zane C.B.]

On Mon, 21 May 2007 01:58:58 +0900
Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru at myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:

> At Sun, 20 May 2007 12:36:07 -0400, Zane C.B. wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 21 May 2007 01:19:58 +0900
> > Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru at myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 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
> > 
> > This is not useful if ~/ is not mounted and you are planning of
> > mounting it using mount_smbfs.
> 
> You never said that.
> Who's mounting ~user in that case? root?

Yeah, looking at doing it through PAM.