El Martes, 13 de Febrero de 2007 22:17, Akemi Yagi escribió: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:05:16 -0800, Alan M. Evans wrote: > > My current (non-working) fstab entry appears thus: > > > > //merope/jdrive /mnt/jdrive cifs > > user=xxx,password=xxx,uid=112,gid=101,file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0777 0 0 > > The options I have in my fstab look something like: > > user,uid=1000,rw,suid,credentials=/root/credentials.txt > > The credentials.txt file contains 2 lines, username=xxx and password=yyy > > One advantage about using the credential option is that this file can be > placed somewhere non-root users cannot access and that password is no > longer visible in /etc/fstab. > > Akemi Yep, I agree, using username and password in fstab rather than credentials is a bad security policy by default. Just my 2 cents... -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.
