kalinix writes: > Today I saw a very weird behavior when mount samba shares. > On F11, I used to mount samba shares with the following command: > > mount //sambaserver/share /local/mountpoint -o username=USER > > Then I was prompted for a password. This way, my password was never > printed on the screen. > Now on F13, when I tried the same scenario, I got an error message: > > share mount is write-protected, mounting read-only > could not mount share in write protected mode. > > After I googled around, I found that, in order to solve the problem, i > have also to pass the password as an option to mount, like: > > mount //sambaserver/share /local/mountpoint -o > username=USER,passwd=PASSWORD > > Only thing is, by doing this the password will show up in 'mount' > output: > > //sambaserver/share on /local/mountpoint type cifs > (rw,user=USER,passwd=PASSWORD) > > and is not visible to me only, but to any user on that system that runs > mount command. > > Does anyone knows how to avoid this? Yes, provide the password via PASSWD environment variable or via a credentials file. man mount.cifs -- Nux! www.nux.ro -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines