Re: automount thru winscp

["Adam T. Bowen" <adamb@agitate.org.uk>]

Hi,

Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a linux server with samba shares behind a firewall. Since my 
> users want to see their shares from the outside network, I thought to 
> dynamically mount shares on the firewall (using, for example, automount) 
>  providing access thru winscp, that has a quite windows like look & 
> feel. The problem is that I cannot understand when the user connects, 
> that means automount does not work with a winscp session, and that I 
> cannot mount shares thru the ~/.bash_profile script, since it is not 
> executed (maybe .profile is executed?). Any idea on how to solve the 
> problem?

Allowing external sFTP connections for normal users to your firewall box
is not a good idea with regard to security, but if that is what you
want.  As far as I know, your SHELL is used to execute the sftp-server
process once you have authenticated via the ssh daemon (using OpenSSH
which is all I have experience of).  So you just need to work out which
of the numerous shell initialization scripts is actually read.  On our
systems with SHELL as bash, the ~/.bashrc is read so you could put the
smbmount commands in there.

I just tried doing this myself and it works ok.  One thing I had to do
was export PASSWD=mypassword before the smbmount command.  Very
insecure, but perhaps you have your shares/authentication configured to
do it without this step.

Cheers

Adam


> Thanks,
> Luca