smbsh and others.

[Alexandre Oliva]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at switchboard.net> writes:

>> 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.

That won't do if you don't trust the local sysadmin and you're willing 
to access remote filesystems.  In fact, if the sysadmin really wants
to steal your password, s/he can do that no matter how much you try to 
prevent it, but why shouldn't we make her/his job harder? :-)

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Alexandre Oliva
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