Access to Windows Share for with Multiuser Support and Persistent cifscreds

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olauer
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Access to Windows Share for with Multiuser Support and Persistent cifscreds

Post by olauer » 2019/03/05 10:58:26

Hello all,

we use two linux calculation servers with two users in an environment which is mainly windows based.
Currently we access a share on a Windows Server 2008 via NFS, but for some reasons since some time the NFS server on Windows hangs up and has to be restarted quite often. As there are plans to move to Windows Server 2016 and removing NFS support completely I was trying to access the share via cifs to be prepared.
The idea was to mount the share during boot with multiuser option and access it with the current user data. This is generally working but with every new login I have to renew the "cifscreds add" command as these login informations are not automatically added to the keyring.
On Google I found some informations for Ubuntu with pam_keyinit and pam_cifscreds but pam_cifscreds is not available in CentOS 7.

Is there any solution for this scenario for CentOS 7?

Thanks for any help.

Oliver

dunch
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Re: Access to Windows Share for with Multiuser Support and Persistent cifscreds

Post by dunch » 2019/03/07 09:29:13

Not the answer you want but pam_cifscreds is already included in RHEL 8 and will be in CentOS 8. There was a feature request to add it to RHEL 7 but RedHat have marked it wontfix.

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