Autofs and semiautomatic credentials

[karaluh]

Binary package hint: autofs5

It should be possible to provide credentials in files, that Autofs would pick automaticly.
See an example for smbfs:
http://www.howtoforge.com/accessing_windows_or_samba_shares_using_autofs

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 1 14:54:03 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: autofs 5.0.4-3.1ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pl_PL:pl:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: autofs5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686

[Jools Wills (jools)]

It's worth noting (as I reported on #531748) that autofs4 came with such functionality and you can actually use the /etc/auto.smb from autofs4 with autofs5 to get the credentials facility back.

[Jools Wills (jools)]

Something like this should do the trick

[Jools Wills (jools)]

makes more sense instead of having just a file with the credentials, you could just have a file with additional parameters.
You can of course then include the credentials with username=xxx,password=xxx
this way you can include other options that you might need such as uid,gid, nounix etc