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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2007 01:58:58 +0900
From:      Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
To:        "Zane C.B." <v.velox@vvelox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mount_smbfs and non-interactively passing a password to it
Message-ID:  <sa6ejlbig8d.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: <20070520123607.4aba7f35@vixen42>
References:  <20070519222527.680ba5c2@vixen42> <sa6hcq7ii1d.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20070520123607.4aba7f35@vixen42>

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At Sun, 20 May 2007 12:36:07 -0400, Zane C.B. wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 21 May 2007 01:19:58 +0900
> Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > At Sat, 19 May 2007 22:25:27 -0400, Zane C.B. wrote:
> > > Is passing a password to mount_smbfs non-interactively possible? I
> > > know it can't accept it on STDIN by piping it into it.
> > 
> > mount_smbfs(8) :
> >      -N      Do not ask for a password.  At run time, mount_smbfs
> > reads the ~/.nsmbrc file for additional configuration parameters
> > and a password.  If no password is found, mount_smbfs prompts for
> > it.
> > 
> > /usr/share/examples/smbfs/dot.nsmbrc :
> > [FSERVER:JOE]
> > # use persistent password cache for user 'joe'
> > password=$$1767877DF
> > 
> > I'm using -N for shares w/o passwords; I've never tried .nsmbrc
> > password myself
> 
> This is not useful if ~/ is not mounted and you are planning of
> mounting it using mount_smbfs.

You never said that.
Who's mounting ~user in that case? root?



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