HOWTO: mount samba shares in fstab using a credential file

Hello,

If you want to mount share files using samba but you don’t want to put the username or password on fstab file, you could use an external file, this is useful if you want to increase a little security since fstab usually is world readable.

Using /etc/fstab

# insecure and common usage
//share/dir /mnt/myshare cifs username=user,password=pass

# more secure usage
mkdir /path/securedir
chmod 0700 /path/securedir
chown root /path/securedir
//share/dir /mt/myshare cifs credentials=/path/securedir/fileshare

cat /path/securedir/fileshare
username=yourusername
password=youpass

As you can see, it’s easy and increase a little security if more users can access in you machine.

of course you can use smbmount too:

smbmount //share/dir /mnt/myshare -o credentials=/path/securedir/fileshare

See you!

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