New PAM-Module: pam-cifs
Murray Trainer
mtrainer at central-data.net
Sat Sep 3 04:22:08 UTC 2005
Hi Wilhelm,
The pam_mount module seemed to work alright but I wanted to use it with
ssh but there is an outstanding bug with ssh that prevents me doing that
- some problem to do with ssh privlege separation and the userid /
passwords not been passed from pam_unix to pam_mount I will be
interested to see if your module works in that case.
Another thing is that I was wondering why you needed to create this
module. Will it offer anything that pam_mount doesn't - pam_mount seems
more general purpose. No offense but it seems like re-inventing the
wheel to me. BTW, I saw recently that the pam_mount maintainer is
looking for someone else to take over maintenance of it.
Regards
Murray
> 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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