Mounting gdbe home directories with pam_mount (or otherwise)

[Soeren Straarup]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, RW wrote:

> I'm thinking of using a gdbe home directory for  for one of my accounts. I'd
> rather not mount the partition at bootup, and logging in to another account
> to mount the partition seems a bit of a pain (three passwords).
>
> I was looking for a workaround, and found pam_mount
> <http://www.flyn.org/projects/pam_mount/index.html> which seems to be an
> ideal solution, since it can mount an encrypted partition transparently with
> the normal login password.  It claims to work with several BSD flavours, but
> it doesn't seem to be in ports. Does it work with FreeBSD and gdbe
> partitions?
>
>

I only see one problem.. when you give your user the first passwd, it will 
be used in the gbde system.. but when the user passwd to a new one.. then 
he/she has to use what the made up them self and then what the admin gave 
them..

I just read the front page didn't look at the code.

\Soeren

Soeren Straarup   | aka OZ2DAK aka Xride
FreeBSD wannabe   | FreeBSD since 2.2.6-R
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