Smbmount password interfaces
Urban Widmark
urban at teststation.com
Mon Nov 11 19:14:01 GMT 2002
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> Could you implement a similar option in smbmount? When the current
> version of smbmount prompts for a password, it tries to read it from
> /dev/tty. Allowing a user to tell smbmount to read its password from
> stdin would make smbmount more flexible in pipelines.
You should be able to set PASSWD_FD to a file descriptor to read the
password from. (see source/client/smbmount.c:get_password_file)
Not that I have a problem with adding 'passwordfd=0' if that makes it any
easier for you.
/Urban
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