pam mount module
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| Last Update: | 2008-04-06 23:15:17 |
| Version: | pam_mount module |
| License/Program Type: | LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) |
| Publisher: | Jan Engelhardt |
| Price: | $0.00 |
Description:
pam_mount is a Pluggable Authentication Module that can mount volumes for a user session.
This module is aimed at environments with SMB (Samba or Windows NT) or NCP (Netware or Mars-NWE) servers that Unix users wish to access transparently. It facilitates access to private volumes of these types well.
The module also supports mounting home directories using loopback encrypted filesystems. The module was originally written for use on the GNU/Linux operating system but has since been modified to work on several flavors of BSD.
- Every user can access his own volumes
- The user needs to type the password just once (at login)
- The mounting process is transparent to the users
- There is no need to keep the login passwords in any additional file
- The volumes are unmounted 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.
pam_mount "understands" SMB, NCP, and any type of filesystem that can be mounted using the standard mount command. If someone has a particular need for a different filesystem, feel free to ask me to include it and send me patches.
If you intend to use pam_mount to protect volumes on your computer using an encrypted filesystem system, please know that there are many other issues you need to consider in order to protect your data.
For example, you probably want to disable or encrypt your swap partition (the cryptoswap can help you do this). Don't assume a system is secure without carefully considering potential threats.
What's New in This Release:
· The mount option was not correctly split.
· SSH-based volumes are now accessible without entering the password twice.
· mount.crypt waits for udev to create dmcrypt nodes, and an inversion was fixed.
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