[Samba] Best Way to Securely Mount SMB/CIFS Shares

[Robert LeBlanc]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:05 PM, <lists at openenterprise.ca> wrote:

> Although I am comfortable mounting smbf/cifs shares for myself, as root,
> I am trying to determine the optimal way to have users get specific
> mounts, without having to put in any user account details in fstab, and
> specific mounts for specific users. I know I can create a .credentials
> file in each users /home/user folder and point to that in fstab. But I
> dont want to have multiple lines in fstab for each user.
>
> Can a mount line be added to a users bash_profile and using a hidden/hashed
>
> credentials file? or something similar so that only those mounts needed
> for any particular user are mounted when they log in. Rather than in
> fstab and mounted for everyone?
>
>
> Or maybe there is another way to securely create different windows share
> mounts for different users without having them in fstab?
>
> CentOS 5.3, x86
> Samba: 3.033375
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If you have a Kerberos realm set-up, you could leverage that so that no
password  is needed. Active Directory uses Kerberos if that is available. A
user on Debian can call smbmount without having to be root.

Robert LeBlanc