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Richard Duran wrote: | I'll take a look at this, but it seems that I would have X number of | credential files, which would require that I find out what this X number | of passwords are, and make sure I update the files every time a password | is changed. Am I completely wrong about this?
Aint Windows networking fun?
You are absolutely right. I usually put the credentials in the actual mount command like so:
~ # mount -t smbfs -o username=grandpoobah,password=netGe3k //machine/share /mountpoint
(line splitting done by MUA)
However, as was suggested before, you could use credential files, but then you would need to generate those files on a regular basis. The first thoughts that come to mind would be:
~ 1) Build a wrapper around the change password command to also update the credential files at the same time.
~ 2) Build a perl script that can be called from an Intranet web page to generate a current credentials file on the fly
~ 3) Build a script that rewrites the credential files on a scheduled basis (once per hour, day, etc).
~ 4) Store username and passwords in an LDAP server, then see item 1-3 above.
Good Luck
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