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Just my loose thoughts...but, how about putting the contents of .creds in a central spot (/opt perhaps?) and make a symlink per user to that spot, chmod the proper rights to it...
By the way, is'nt it somewhat "iffy" to grant a day-to-day user access to the Root's creds? Of course, I can be a wee paranoid at times...
Just my loose thoughts...but, how about putting the contents of .creds in a central spot (/opt perhaps?) and make a symlink per user to that spot, chmod the proper rights to it...
By the way, is'nt it somewhat "iffy" to grant a day-to-day user access to the Root's creds? Of course, I can be a wee paranoid at times...
But...I am a Linux newbe too (ar'nt we all?)
Thor
The username/password is in the .creds file, which I do not want accessible by other users. So, root owns it. I'm mounting the dir as root, but allowing a regular user to access it.
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