Re: Samba automount as a home directory

> Ah , I was hoping not to add the client to the domain (IE winbind).

As far as I can tell, the pam_mount stuff it independent of samba/winbind.

> I was looking at this :
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/pam_smbpass.html
> Seems kinda old they are talking about kernel 2.4. Have you looked into
> CIFS
> is it significantly different from SMBFS.

CIFS is the new SMBFS. Its much better. But if you're not going to
synchronize your user databases (NIS, winbind, etc), your uid/gid
permissions will be wonky.

> One thing I know is tools like
> smbclient supports kerberos hashes
> so if you authenticate your Linux client via Kerberos smbclient will
> pass the hash and allow you browse,
> smbmount does not support this I was hoping a magical cifsmount might

If you check the man page for mount.cifs, it claims to support
kerberos. So does mount.smbfs I've never tried it. You could
probably set pam up to use the use the local user, get a kerberos
ticket, then mount their home directory.
Received on Thu May 3 15:06:40 2007