Mount multiple shares with a single mount command

You can write a script which takes input for the username and password and applies it to each mount required. The script will need to be run with root level privileges. This also assumes that the mounts are all Samba shares. You'd need to tweak the script to include each of your mount points. With this script you will have to define all of your mount options rather than rely on those in fstab:

#!/bin/bash

echo "Enter username for mounts:"
read mount_user
[[ -z "mount_user" ]] && echo "Username empty, exiting" && exit

echo "Enter password for mounts:"
read -s mount_pass
[[ -z "mount_pass" ]] && echo "Password empty, exiting" && exit

# Mount first share
mount -t cifs //server1/share1 /mnt/share1 -o username="$mount_user",password="$mount_pass"
# Mount second share
mount ...

Save this script as something like /home/user/mountall, and execute it with sudo /home/user/mountall.

This does load your password into memory in plain, and into a variable in the script's running process. Whether that is considered insecure in your environment is a question for your security team.

Command you looking for is probably this:

sudo mount -a

I'm not sure how the authentication would work with it but give it a try. If it doesn't work you can always edit your fstab entry in this way:

//servername/sharename  /media/windowsshare  cifs  username=msusername,password=mspassword,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm  0  0

Put your mount commands in a bash script, and sudo that script.

#!/bin/bash
mount .....
mount .....
mount .....
exit 0