pam_mount - A PAM module that can mount volumes for a user session
Description:
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. o Every user can access his own volumes o The user needs to type the password just once (at login) o The mounting process is transparent to the users o There is no need to keep the login passwords in any additional file o 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.
Homepage: http://pam-mount.sourceforge.net/
License: LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+
Vendor: Fedora Project
Packages
| pam_mount-0.18-2.fc8.i386 [106 KiB] |
Changelog by Till Maas (2007-08-23):
- add README.Fedora - add patch to wait for applications that do not process pam properly - update license tag |