smbpwman is a password caching daemon (or more simply it just caches keys and values). Originally written for automatic mounting of samba shares at any time. I've created a patched version of pam_mount that makes use of this to work around a problem when using openssh (see bug #24213). Also attached are patches that I used on smbpwman for this purpose to reduce the time it cached passwords for and to have it clean the memory containing passwords before it deallocated it.
Created attachment 41513 [details] smbpwman ebuild
Created attachment 41514 [details, diff] Patch to clean passwords Patch to overwrite passwords in memory with 0's before freeing the memory
Created attachment 41515 [details, diff] Fix race condition in clearing passwords Patch to fix race condition by introducing reference counter. Add some debugging ability
Created attachment 41516 [details, diff] Create shared library for interaction with daemon
Created attachment 41517 [details, diff] Prevent daemon from auto starting
Created attachment 41518 [details, diff] Patch to expire cache entries Patch to expire cache entries after 2 seconds
Created attachment 41519 [details, diff] Retry connection to daemon
Created attachment 41520 [details, diff] Fix locking to prevent multiple daemons from running
Created attachment 41521 [details, diff] Patch to enable debugging
Created attachment 41522 [details] init.d script
Created attachment 41523 [details] Cron job to flush the cache
Created attachment 41524 [details] Fixed smbpwman ebuild Fixed to prevent installation of cron job for vanilla builds, and fixed some white space problems.
I would also like to have that in Portage. Current version is 0.6. Should we reassign it to maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org?
Yes, I think it is better to reassign to maintainer-wanted@g.o If anyone volunteers :-)
No way we are adding an ebuild that requires zillions of patches to work. Reopen with an updated ebuild if upstream fixed those meanwhile and is still alive. WONTFIX meanwhile.
