Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 13:46:45 -0400 From: "Zane C.B." <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_smbfs and non-interactively passing a password to it Message-ID: <20070520134645.3d77b75c@vixen42> In-Reply-To: <sa6d50vied6.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> References: <20070519222527.680ba5c2@vixen42> <sa6hcq7ii1d.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20070520123607.4aba7f35@vixen42> <sa6ejlbig8d.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20070520131042.2ce78ae0@vixen42> <sa6d50vied6.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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On Mon, 21 May 2007 02:39:17 +0900 Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote: > At Sun, 20 May 2007 13:10:42 -0400, Zane C.B. wrote: > > > > On Mon, 21 May 2007 01:58:58 +0900 > > Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru@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@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. > > OK. finally, I see your picture and why you said ENV; > > For a hack: > With the root creds in effect, /root/.nsmbrc is consulted > and /etc/nsmb.conf is always consulted (as written in that file). > Write the password in either of it, mount, and wipe it out. Not useful since that would require passwords being in that file. > Other than that, I've no idea. > You'd need to wipe out the environment vars if you use it too. Decided against that since D.E.S. pointed out that it would be exposed in /proc.
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