configure /etc/pam.d/crond to use pam_mount

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Sat Oct 8 12:40:30 UTC 2016


On 08.10.16 11:55, Simone Gaiarin wrote:
>Hi I have a LUKS encrypted disk that I mount during the login phase using
>pam_mount. The problem I'm facing is that cron jobs cannot see the the
>content of the disk.
>
>After an intensive research I've understood that I need to configure
>/etc/pam.d/crond in order to properly load the pam_mount module. I've tried
>this without any success, so I'm asking here to get some help from an
>expert of PAM.

>I''ve configured pam_mount using these instructions:
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pam_mount
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Pam_mount

I wonder if pam_mount does not need user's password in orderto mount the
encrypted filesystem. Otherwise it would be quite useless to have it
encrypted, wouldn't it?


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