On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:14, Williams, David wrote: > I am mounting a smbfs share from a windows machine to my fedora core 2 > box on boot. I am using the entry in my fstab to do this. How can I > specify the user and password to mount the share without it showing up > in clear text in the fstab? Is there a way to hash the password in > another file and call it from fstab? > > Any help would be appreciated. You need to use the credentials=pathtofile/file in the fstab options. Then in the file you entries like: username=user password=verysecurepassword The file I used was .smbpw down in my home directory with readonly permissions for the owner. I used a full path such as /home/user/.smbpw in the credentials line. Check out the man pages. I think that is where I found this. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx "The jig's up, Elman." "Which jig?" -- Jeff Elman
