Re: tlug: PC-NFS, samba?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 mike.fabian@example.com wrote:

> I  mount the  NFS file  systems of the  other UNIX  machines at system
> startup by having entries for them in /etc/fstab.
> 
> With smbfs  this   doesn't work of  course,  therefore  I did put  the
> smbmount commands into rc.local.    And unfortunately the NT  machines
> insist on getting  a password,   therefore I  used the "-P   password"
> option of  smbmount. Now I have  passwords in  plain text in rc.local.
> Is this OK,  or is this dangerous? (I  made rc.local readable for root
> only).

Make sure it's executable for root only as well, ie:

chmod 0700 /etc/rc.d/rc.local

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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