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W. Michael Petullo <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: lgpl
Other License: 
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/pam_mount-0.9.6.tar.gz, 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 GNU/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.

Other Comments:
The project has been submitted once already.  Since the last submission, I 
ensured all source code files contained a copyright notice.  Version 0.9.6 
contains these changes.


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