Fwd: [LeapList] Automating SAMBA share mounting

[Adolfo Santiago]

I would be nice...

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On 11/2/00, 2:58:54 PM, Jason Haar <Jason.Haar at trimble.co.nz> wrote 
regarding Re: Fwd: [LeapList] Automating SAMBA share mounting:


> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:04:57PM +0100, Urban Widmark wrote:
> > AFAIK there is no simple & complete solution that you can just pop into
> > your system and do this. The connection between login (commonly pam) and
> > smbmount is missing.

> Yeah, I've been thinking about that too. What you need is for the xdm 
(kdm
> under KDE) to do something extra with the password the user types in: 
e.g.
> set an environment variable (majorly insecure), or write it to
> $HOME/.mypasswd (just insecure ;-). Then you could get 
/usr/lib/X11/Xsession
> to call smbmount with the contents of $HOME/.mypasswd for the password.

> [Security be damned! It's a Friday ;-)]

> --
> Cheers

> Jason Haar

> Unix/Special Projects, Trimble NZ
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