New PAM-Module: pam-cifs

Wilhelm Meier meier at informatik.fh-kl.de
Tue Sep 6 13:16:43 UTC 2005


Thank you for this advice. But I found it vital not to use any password 
caching. 

> I have done some work in this area, but my solution uses automount.  It
> might be of interest:
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/index.html
>
> John.
>
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I wrote a simple Linux-PAM module named pam_cifs which is of special
> > interest to all linux-cifs-client users:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-cifs
> >
> > pam_cifs is responsible for mounting cifs-shares on login of users to the
> > system. It is really usefull in combination with pam_ldap and nss_ldap.
> > The unmounting of cifs-shares is done via a little daemon, to ensure,
> > that the filesystem isn't in use anymore.
> >
> > This is a very (!) early state of this project (currently version 0.4),
> > but it works. Compared to pam_mount this module is much, much simpler and
> > has a different architecture and its limitations.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Wilhelm Meier
> > email: meier at informatik.fh-kl.de
> >
> >
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