cifs mount options

Alan M. Evans fedoralist at alanevans.org
Tue Feb 13 21:55:54 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 22:49 +0100, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
> El Martes, 13 de Febrero de 2007 22:17, Akemi Yagi escribió:

> > One advantage about using the credential option is that this file can be
> > placed somewhere non-root users cannot access and that password is no
> > longer visible in /etc/fstab.

> Yep, I agree, using username and password in fstab rather than credentials is 
> a bad security policy by default.
> Just my 2 cents...

That's great. Thanks, twice over.

However, my problem has nothing whatever to do with how securely the
passwords are stored. What I really want to know is why I can't
overwrite files on the share. Is there anyone out there who can help me
with that?




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