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Asked: 2016-02-18 09:20:59 +0800 CST

Is there a way to mount a Windows CIFS share and bypass the password prompt without a password file?

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I'm trying to mount a Windows cifs share (shared by Windows) onto a CentOS box, per user. Users are all in Active Directory.

So, every user who logs into their Linux box should be mounting the drive with their own credentials.

A solution I found was to mount using:

mount -t cifs //servername/mylogin /home/mylogin/windows -o uid=mylogin -o gid=groupname -o credentials=/home/mylogin/winpasswd

And for the /home/mylogin/winpasswd:

username=mylogin
domain=domainname
password=password_in_plain_text

However, I don't want to manually implement this for every Linux box and every user on every Linux box. Also, I don't want users having their password in plain text anywhere. Is there a way to mount a Windows cifs share and bypass the password prompt without a password file?

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3 Answers

  1. A way is to use multiuser cifs-mounts and pam_cifscreds. The Linux login password, and cifs password needs to match in order to use this solution.

    Using kerberos authentication with keyutils configured for cifs and accordingly setup pam and/or sssd could also provide passwordless multiuser cifs-mounts.

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  2. Same as HBruijn I'll say that automount is the solution.

    Check http://www.electromech.info/rhce-linux-howtos-electromech-ahemdabad-gujarat/38-automounting-home-directories-with-nis-and-nfs.html

    It's not the best source or tutorial I've seen, but i hope this helps.

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  3. If the users are in AD and the Windows box is also enrolled in the domain then I suggest adding CentOS boxes to the domain as well and employing kerberos/gssapi for single sign on.

    sssd is capable of joining the AD and I am using such a setup myself.

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