Automounting Samba Security Question [Solved]

[Fallen_Paladin]

Heya, sorry for posting this, but I did a bit of searching and didn't come up with much. I've just set up samba on this machine and though I've run it in the past, I've never gone to the trouble of adding it to the fstab before. Now I'm trying to do it, but I've got a security concern.

Typically /etc/fstab has permissions = 644 and the mount line for a samba partition is such as
//machine/share /mnt/mntpoint smbfs -o username=<user>,password=<pass>,gid=n,umask=xxx

Now, I've played with slackware a bit in the past, but never really set up anything important enough to worry about security. However, this looks like a potentially easy way to dig up a password for whatever box this client is connecting to. Even a guest can run less /etc/fstab.

I have created a special case username and password for this connection, but I don't want to settle with that. Is there a way I can put the username and password or at least the password in another file and have it read that file when it makes the connection? Is there another way to make this more secure while still having it automatically mount the shares? Or is my concern for nothing?

[GordSki]

If your worried about a world readable file, you could add a command to '/etc/conf.d/local.start' point to a root only script to mount the dir at boot.

You might need to add an unmount to '/etc/conf.d/local.stop' to make sure everything is unmounted cleanly.

There is this option on mount too:

[Fallen_Paladin]

Thanks. That answers my question.