A README file with needed explanations.

README (text/plain), 1.22 KB, created by Rodrigo Severo on 2004-10-27 04:37:00 UTC

pam + cifs authentication


The problem with cifs or smbfs/smb/samba is that mounting a cifs filesystems
requires a password. As one assumes you already have a central password
repository like ldap, NT Domain or nis the password for the cifs smbfs is the
same as for the local system.

When logging in the problem is the transfer of the password from the Password:
prompt to the automounter autofs. To get this to work i wrote a pam module
called libpam-storepw. The aim of this module is to create an smbmount
credential file like this:

username = flo
password = secret
															
To get libpam-storepw called you need to modify the pam files for the login
methods you want to support. As an example here is the ssh version:

auth       required     pam_nologin.so
auth       required     pam_unix.so
auth       required     pam_storepw.so
auth       required     pam_env.so

Now you need to setup your auto.master:

/home                   /etc/auto.home

and a auto.home.

*       -fstype=smbfs,uid=&,dmask=700,gid=1000,credentials=/var/run/pw/& ://samba/homes

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This README is a copy of <http://silicon-verl.de/home/flo/software/pamcifs.html>.

2004-10-26 19:12 GMT-0300

Rodrigo Severo