Re: retrieving passwords for login purposes

[Rudd-O DragonFear <rudd-o veronica amauta>]

Some people have been working on a "keyring" contraption for nautilus. 
What about .netrc?  Is there a library that would read/write to the
.netrc file?

El mié, 17-12-2003 a las 15:03, Cristóvão B. B. Dalla Costa escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for the previous help.
> 
> In my organization the need has come up to work around many apps'
> limitations regarding the SMB filesystem -- while VFS apps will open
> documents transparently over SMB filesystems others such as OpenOffice
> won't. Therefore I'm working on a Nautilus 2.4 patch to address that
> point.
> 
> Would the Nautilus community be interested to integrate such a patch? 
> 
> Anyway, I've already altered Nautilus and created a wrapper to mount the
> filesystem temporarily and launch the file from there. However, it
> suffers in the cases where the SMB share is password protected. The user
> will type a login and a password when he first loads that share and I
> now need to retrieve the login/pass to pass on to smbmount, and so far
> I'm not being able to locate the source for doing that.
> 
> I'd be very thankful if you could point out how to retrieve the
> user/pass for a specified SMB share.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Cristovao.