Mount samba share using pam_mount

Saturday, 27 June 2020

Fedora Workstation 32

I'm trying to mount a samba share at login using pam_mount.  The steps I've taken
so far after googling and man-page 
reading are:

1. In /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml I uncommented the line:

	<luserconf name=".pam_mount.conf.xml" />

2. Created the file ~/.pam_mount.conf.xml containing:

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
	<pam_mount>
		<volume options="uid=%(USERUID),gid=%(USERGID)" user="%(USER)"
			mountpoint="~/diskstation/home" path="home"
server="diskstation.local" fstype="cifs" />
	</pam_mount>

3. To add pam_mount.so to pam.d I changed /etc/pam.d/login to:

#%PAM-1.0
auth       substack     system-auth
auth       optional     pam_mount.so
auth       include      postlogin
account    required     pam_nologin.so
account    include      system-auth
password   include      system-auth
# pam_selinux.so close should be the first session rule
session    required     pam_selinux.so close
session    optional     pam_mount.so
session    required     pam_loginuid.so
session    optional     pam_console.so
# pam_selinux.so open should only be followed by sessions to be executed in the user
context
session    required     pam_selinux.so open
session    required     pam_namespace.so
session    optional     pam_keyinit.so force revoke
session    include      system-auth
session    include      postlogin
-session   optional     pam_ck_connector.so

and /etc/pam.d/gdm-password to:

auth     [success=done ignore=ignore default=bad] pam_selinux_permit.so
auth        substack      password-auth
auth        optional      pam_mount.so
auth        optional      pam_gnome_keyring.so
auth        include       postlogin

account     required      pam_nologin.so
account     include       password-auth

password    substack       password-auth
-password   optional       pam_gnome_keyring.so use_authtok

session     required      pam_selinux.so close
session     optional      pam_mount.so
session     required      pam_loginuid.so
session     optional      pam_console.so
session     required      pam_selinux.so open
session     optional      pam_keyinit.so force revoke
session     required      pam_namespace.so
session     include       password-auth
session     optional      pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
session     include       postlogin

I log out and back in again and... it does not work.  (I can mount this share from the
command line using the mount 
command.)

So my question is... what am I doing wrong?

Simon