Fstab setup
Scot L. Harris
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Thu Oct 7 18:41:17 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:14, Williams, David wrote:
> I am mounting a smbfs share from a windows machine to my fedora core 2
> box on boot. I am using the entry in my fstab to do this. How can I
> specify the user and password to mount the share without it showing up
> in clear text in the fstab? Is there a way to hash the password in
> another file and call it from fstab?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
You need to use the credentials=pathtofile/file in the fstab options.
Then in the file you entries like:
username=user
password=verysecurepassword
The file I used was .smbpw down in my home directory with readonly
permissions for the owner.
I used a full path such as /home/user/.smbpw in the credentials line.
Check out the man pages. I think that is where I found this.
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