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W. Michael Petullo <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: lgpl
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Package: pam_mount
System name: pam-mount
Type: GNU

Description:
Pam_mount, LGPLed and available for download at 
http://www.flyn.org/projects/pam_mount/download.html, is a PAM module that can 
mount volumes for a user session.  The module is aimed at environments with SMB 
(Samba or Windows NT) or NCP (Netware or Mars-NWE) servers that Unix users wish 
to access transparently. It facilitates access to private volumes of these 
types well. The module also supports mounting home directories using loopback 
encrypted filesystems. The module was originally written for use on the Linux 
operating system but has since been modified to work on several flavors of BSD. 



o Every user can access his own volumes 

o The user needs to type the password just once (at login) 

o The mounting process is transparent to the users 

o There is no need to keep the login passwords in any additional file 

o The volumes are unmounted upon logout, so it saves system resources, avoiding 
the need of listing every every possibly useful

   remote volume in /etc/fstab or in an automount/supermount config file. This 
is also necessary for securing encrypted

   filesystems. 



Pam_mount "understands" SMB, NCP, and any type of filesystem that can be 
mounted using the standard mount command. If someone

has a particular need for a different filesystem, feel free to ask me to 
include it and send me patches. 

Other Software Required:
Pam_mount requires a PAM system such as Linux-PAM or OpenPAM.

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