| Name : pam_mount
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| Version : 0.3.8
| Vendor : Flyn Computing
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| Release : 1
| Date : 2002-08-24 20:34:51
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| Group : Base
| Source RPM : pam_mount-0.3.8-1.src.rpm
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| Size : 0.04 MB
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| Packager : PLD bug tracking system ( http://bugs_pld_org_pl/ )
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| Summary : A PAM module that can mount remote volumes for a user session
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Description :
This module is aimed to environments with SMB (Samba or Windows NT)
and/or NCP (Netware or Mars-NWE) servers that Unix users want or need
to access, and some users have / every user has private volumes in
that servers. The module also supports mounting home directories using
loopback encrypted filesystems (see also
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO.html).
- Every user can access his/her own volumes
- The user needs to type the password just once (at login) (*)
- The mouting process is transparent to the users
- There is no need to keep the login passwords in any additional file
- The volumes are unmount upon logout, so it saves system resources,
avoiding the need of listing every every possibly useful remote volume
in /etc/fstab or in an automount/supermount config file. This is also
necessary for securing encrypted filesystems.
(*) Obviously, the user password in the Unix system and in the remote
servers must be the same ;)
Pam_mount \"understands\" SMB, NCP, and encrypted loopback volumes, but
this can be extended very easily.
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