Re: [webmin-devel] [FSTAB] Samba-Problems with Webmin Version 1.163

[Martin M. <mm...@me...>]

Hi Jamie,

Jamie Cameron wrote:

> Perhaps not all filesystems have a mount.XXX program, only those that
> cannot be handled directly by the kernel ..
> 
> So what is Webmin doing wrong exactly? Is it using /etc/fstab instead of
> /etc/samba/sbmfstab , or can it not even mount SMBFS at all?

[/etc/fstab -> /etc/samba/smbfstab]
It uses /etc/fstab, which is not wrong in the first line.
Compiling smb-shares in /etc/fstab is making the used login and 
password visible to any user on the system.

According to the FAQ smb-shares whould be written to 
/etc/samba/smbfstab by default, because this is more safe.

If you do a "ps -fax" as a normal user you will see login and password 
in the tree, whereas written down in /etc/samba/fstab it only shows 
that there is something mounted.

Anyway a "cat" would make it visible, so it is just a chmod-modding by 
the admin to disallow this.

SuSE 9.2 has an empty sbmfstab coming with the default rpm's. I cannot 
be sure for SuSE 9.1, but the mechanism should be as bot distros come 
with Samba v3.x

[mount-errors]
I can only be sure for SuSE 9.2.
Using Webmin there is a syntax error happening.

Mounting on the command line makes no problems.

bis dahin - kind regards

Martin Mewes

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