mount_smbfs and non-interactively passing a password to it

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Mon May 21 04:46:40 UTC 2007


On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:25:11PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Zane C.B., and lo! it spake thus:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007 03:22:46 +0900
> Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru at myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> > FWIW, IIRC, some version of ssh-agent used unnamed socket or pipe
> > to limit its access to its descendants only.  I don't know if the
> > reason for the change of that enforcement was security-wise or
> > not.
> 
> Yeah, going to have to look at that and expand my C skills some
> more.

Note pw(8)'s '-h' option to pass the password over a given FD.


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