[clue-tech] Sharing samba with libpam-mount?

[Dennis J Perkins]

On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 09:28 -0800, Adrian F. Nagle, IV wrote:
> > From: Dennis J Perkins <dennisjperkins at comcast.net>
> 
> > The pam_unix messages are normal.  The first means that your request for
> > a session was authenticated and approved.  I'm not sure about the other,
> > but I looked at my system and I see that these pam_unix messages
> > sometimes come in pairs.
> > 
> > I missed the start of this thread.  What is the problem?  
> > 
> > @include common-pammount loads a set of shared pam directives into the
> > directive files you mentioned: login, su and kdm.  I'm guessing that you
> > want to use Samba to automatically connect and disconnect when you log
> > in and out?  That makes sense for login and kdm, but su?
> > 
> 
> Yes, my goal was to automatically mount samba volumes, without having to mess with passwords.  I was just following directions I found online, and I see now loading pam in su is not necessary.
> 
> I'm trying to mount the sharename "srvshare" (listed in my smb.conf file) on my jerome server at the local mount point /media/srvshare.
> 
> Looking at df and listing the contents of /media/srvshare it doesn not look like pam_mount is mounting what I want.  I'm trying to figure out what I missed or have setup incorrectly.  My questions are trying to figure out how to debug this.
> 
> I can connect to srvshare via Konqueror (smb://jerome/srvshare/nagle_ext1).
> 
> Adrian

Does your  pam_mount in the auth section look like this?  use_first_pass
tells it to use the password that was used earlier by pam_unix;
otherwise, I think you need to enter the password more than once.

auth       optional    /lib/security/pam_mount.so use_first_pass


It should like this in the session section:

session    optional    /lib/security/pam_mount.so


See if you have file /etc/security/pam_mount.conf. That file seems to be
necessary.  

If it has this line:

    smbmount /bin/mount -t smbfs

try changing smbfs to cifs.  You need to have /sbin/mount.cifs for this
to work.


You also need to tell pam_mount to mount something.  I found this
example, but I don't use Samba, so I cannot tell you how to use it.  I
don't know if this belongs in a Samba file or if it should be in
pam_mount.conf.

    volume * smb <server> & /home/& uid=& - -

Another site shows what I think is the setup for this line:

   volume * cifs servername sharename ~/mount-point dmask=0751 - -


I have a PAM book packed away somewhere that might provide some help on
pam_mount.