smbsh and others.
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at switchboard.net
Tue Oct 6 19:08:12 GMT 1998
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Edan Idzerda wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> > can we create the convention which, based on ftp's .netrc, ssh's security
> > system and win95's password cacheing does the following:
>
> Err, I don't think .netrc can be compared with anything ssh stores
> in your home directory. Your .netrc has clear text passwords while
> ~/.ssh contains your private key, if you create one.
>
> I'd really rather not store clear text passwords for \\server\share
> in user's home directories, particularly when (in my environment)
> the share that they connect to most is their Unix home directory!
that's why i said 700 permissions on the ~/.smb directory. oh, i forget
to mention 600 on ~/.smb/.smbrc file. if these permissions are any less
strict, then an error should be thrown refusing access. a log message or
other "serious error" should be indicated to the user that the security of
their passwords has been or may be compromised.
i don't know anything about smbagent.
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