Package: smbfs Version: 2:4.5-2+squeeze1 Severity: important
Hi, the best of the best is to add a password in plain text into the /etc/fstab of a machine. If you think further, it leaves a lot of ways to get the samba password of an user, - rapidly, and pretty simple for any hackers. I would recommend you do soemthing. Please put this package in SID. It cannot be like that. I give you the great how to that leaves a beautiful breach ... SAMBA is brillant. But tools Kind regards Install smbclient from the Official Repositories. To list public shares on a server: $ smbclient -L <hostname> -U% Create a mount point for the share: # mkdir /mnt/MOUNTPOINT Mount the share using the mount.cifs type. Not all the options listed below are needed or desirable (ie. password). # mount -t cifs //SERVER/SHARENAME /mnt/MOUNTPOINT -o user=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD,workgroup=WORKGROUP,ip=SERVERIP SERVER The Windows system name. SHARENAME The shared directory. MOUNTPOINT The local directory where the share will be mounted. -o [options] See man mount.cifs for more information: Note: Abstain from using a trailing /. //SERVER/SHARENAME/ will not work. Add Share to /etc/fstab The simplest way to add an fstab entry is something like this: /etc/fstab //SERVER/SHARENAME /mnt/MOUNTPOINT cifs noauto,username=USER,password=PASSWORD,workgroup=WORKGROUP,ip=SERVERIP 0 0 However, storing passwords in a world readable file is not recommended! A safer method would be to use a credentials file. As an example, create a file and chmod 600 <filename> so only the owning user can read and write to it. It should contain the following information: /path/to/credentials/sambacreds username=USERNAME password=PASSWORD and the line in your fstab should look something like this: /etc/fstab //SERVER/SHARENAME /mnt/MOUNTPOINT cifs noauto,username=USER,credentials=/path/to/credentials/sambacreds,workgroup=WORKGROUP,ip=SERVERIP 0 0 If using systemd (modern installations), one can utilize the comment=systemd.automount option, which speeds up service boot by a few seconds. Also, one can map current user and group to make life a bit easier, utilizing uid and gid options: /etc/fstab //SERVER/SHARENAME /mnt/MOUNTPOINT cifs noauto,credentials=/path/to/smbcredentials,comment=systemd.automount,uid=USERNAME,gid=USERGROUP 0 0 source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages smbfs depends on: ii cifs-utils 2:4.5-2+squeeze1 Common Internet File System utilit smbfs recommends no packages. smbfs suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
