Re: password visible in 'mount' output?

[Ben Greear <greearb-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA@public.gmane.org>]

On 08/31/2010 12:43 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:39:01 -0700
> Ben Greear<greearb-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA@public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>
>>
>>>      Standard Fedora 13, as far as I can tell, and I have no mount.cifs
>>>      in $PATH
>>>
>>>
>>> You are right - if you are missing mount.cifs you will see what is
>>> passed into previous mounts, including the password (and cifs can't
>>> filter it out for you since this is being done by mount).   Not sure if
>>> this is fixable though - you should have mount.cifs installed (when this
>>> would not be a problem) and Fedora does package mount.cifs.
>>
>> I installed 'cifs-utils', which provides /sbin/mount.cifs,
>> but 'mount' output is the same.
>>
>> [root@ct503-10G-09 lanforge]# mount.cifs -V
>> mount.cifs version: 4.6
>>
>
> Running "mount" without args just displays the contents of /etc/mtab.
> If you did the mount previously and then installed mount.cifs, it won't
> fix the contents of /etc/mtab. New mounts shouldn't store the password
> in /etc/mtab though.


Ahh, that did indeed fix it.

Thanks,
Ben


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