On Wednesday 23 July 2003 01:57 pm, Shadow wrote:
> Eric Lee Green wrote:
> > server. He'd like them to log in, and be able to access only their files
> > on the Windows NT server. But smbmount requires a specific user ID.
> > Unless he ties people to specific workstations (which he does not want to
> > do), he's stumped.
>
> Have him take a look at Pam_Mount. From Freshmeat.net:
> > The pam_mount module allows users to have NCP (Netware), SMB
> > (Windows/Samba), or loopback-encrypted volumes mounted upon login,
> > using the same passwords they typed to log in. A remote volume can
> > even be used as a user's $HOME. Volumes mounted this way are
> > automatically unmounted on logout.
Cool! Thanks, I'll forward that information to my brother. Like I said, that's
virtually the only thing left between him and relief from accountants bearing
tidings of viruses :-). (The accounting application actually lives on an IBM
minicomputer and is accessed via a 3270 emulator, and tn3270 works fine for
that, so that's not an issue).
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Eric Lee Green
mailto:eric@badtux.org
Unix/Linux/Storage Software Engineer needs job --
see
http://badtux.org for resume
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