[CentOS] smbmount

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Aug 29 22:17:07 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 14:39 -0700, Al Sparks wrote:
> Is there a method or way that will allow one to automagically mount
> samba shares requiring a password w/o using a plain text password?
> 
> Even if I have to store the plaintext password in a file, is there at
> least a way to keep plain text passwords going over the network
> (IPSec perhaps)?
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not sure to what you are referring...by default, Samba, uses a hashed
password and doesn't transmit a plain text password to a Windows / smbfs
or cifs server.

Craig




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