Name: pam_mount
Homepage: http://pam-mount.sourceforge.net/
License: GPLv2
Tarball: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-mount/files/pam_mount/2.16/pam_mount-2.16.tar.xz/download
Repository: http://sourceforge.net/p/pam-mount/pam-mount
Used to automatically mount file systems when a user logs in and unmount at logoff. Can be used for encrypted home drives and mounting smb shares.
libHX is a dependency for pam_mount that isn't currently packaged in solus either.
Name: libHX
Homepage: http://libhx.sourceforge.net/
License: GPL
Tarball: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libhx/files/libHX/3.22/libHX-3.22.tar.xz/download
Repository: http://sourceforge.net/p/libhx/libhx
A library providing queue, tree, I/O and utility functions.
I personally use it to automount smb shares at login. pam_mount let's you mount a share using the same credentials that were used to login to your session. It doesn't require maintaining a credentials file for each user. I haven't found a way to replicate that functionaltiy with autofs.
Oooh, I like the idea of re-using credentials for smb mounts without having to store my smb credentials in plain text somewhere.
If at all possible, I'd like to see this accepted for inclusion please, as this seems like the rare feature where for once security and convenience are not at odds.
@joekenny: Great find mate! \o/
I'm currently testing a local package for this and intend to use and maintain it myself once I feel it's ready for public consumption.
As this task has been marked Needs Maintainer for over a month with nobody having stepped up to become maintainer, in addition to providing an acceptable patch for inclusion, marking as WONTFIX. Feel free to re-open when a patch has been submitted via the proper processes.
I was also looking for pam_mout support to automatically decrypt and mount a gocryptfs folder.
Since pam_mount is not supported in Solus, I'm now using the Gnome keyring tool secret-tool to store the password and automatically pass it to gocryptfs. It's not the same as using pam_mount, but at least for me a good alternative and quite easy to use. It allows me to automatically mount my encrypted folder at login.
gocryptfs --extpass="secret-tool lookup gocryptfs cipher" cipher plain
See also https://lzone.de/blog/Using+Linux+keyring+secrets+from+your+scripts for usage in scripts.