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

[Adrian F. Nagle, IV]

Dennis,

Thank you.  I'll look at your suggestions in more detail.  Part of the issue is that the .conf file was changed to an xml format.  In my original post, I quoted my mount statements.  Much of the help online is too old.

Adrian



> From: Dennis J Perkins <dennisjperkins at comcast.net>
> 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 & /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.
> 

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