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Steffen
Asked: 2015-06-22 03:26:21 +0800 CST

davfs: syntax error in secrets file

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I have here a linux system which should mount a (remote) davfs file system. All is fine and if I mount the file system manually from command line it works:

/> mount /share/davDrives/private 
Gib bitte den Benutzernamen für den Server https://data011.fritz.box/webdav/Shared/Public an; wenn du keinen angeben willst, drücke Return.
  Benutzername: username
Gib bitte das Passwort von username für den Server https://data011.fritz.box/webdav/Shared/Public
an; wenn du keines angeben willst, drücke Return.
  Passwort:

(it's a german installation) After that the file system is mounted successfully.

But I want to mount the file system automatically. To do that I must put username and password into a ~/.davfs2/secrets file:

/share/davDrives/private  username  myPasswordIsTopSecret

But if I try to mount the davfs the I get:

/> mount /share/davDrives/private 
/sbin/mount.davfs:/home/stewert.c-on/.davfs2/secrets:1: Syntaxfehler in der Zeile

("Syntaxfehler in der Zeile" == "Syntax error in line")

What's wrong?

linux

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    What's wrong?!? Difficult to find, but simple:

    In my case there was in the secrets file a white space (" ") behind the password ... ;-) That's all!

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