kde network manager and pam_mount

[Rob Verduijn]

p.s.
before I forget...
It is essential that the credentials of the user at login are used,
not those of root or else I could simply use fstab.

rob


2010/4/4 Rob Verduijn <rob.verduijn at gmail.com>:
> As far as I can tell from the betwork manager man page the scripts in
> /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d would be executed as root.
> This means pam_mount would be initialised as root and not with the
> credentials of the user that just logged in.
>
> Do you know a nifty way to obtain the credentials of the user that
> just logged in so that a script using that could do something like
> "su <current-user> -c true"
> so that the pam_mount get's kicked into action for that user ?
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
>
>
> 2010/4/4 Will Stephenson <wstephenson at kde.org>:
>> On Saturday 03 April 2010 14:10:38 Rob Verduijn wrote:
>>> I was wondering if anyone has any experience in the following situation.
>>>
>>> I am using kde on opensuse 11.2 on my laptop.
>>>
>>> I am trying to get pam_mount to mount a share after kde network
>>> manager has enabled my wifi.
>>>
>>> But since pam_mount is already finished trying to mount the share by
>>> the time network manager has enabled my wifi it always failes to
>>> mount.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to make pam_mount to wait for kde network manager or is
>>> it possible to explain kde network manager to start pam_mount when it
>>> has enabled the wifi ?
>>
>> KNetworkManager is not the appropriate place for this.  Look in
>> /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d, that's the general mechanism for doing stuff
>> on connect.
>>
>> Will
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