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Q. Why are my volumes not being unmounted by pam_mount? I use Debian.
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Q. Why are my volumes not being unmounted by pam_mount?
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A. Ensure that CLOSE_SESSIONS is set to yes in /etc/login.defs,
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otherwise your volume will not be unmounted upon logging out. I
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believe this default behavior is a bug and have filed it as Debian
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bug #163635. The maintainer is Karl Ramm <kcr@debian.org>.
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(Note December 2005: Current maintainer of pam_mount for Debian is
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Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>)
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A. Some stupid programs keep files open that make it impossible to
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umount. There is a <logout> directive in the configuration file
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to kill programs when needed.
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Q. What is with the auth requirement for pam_mount? Should not this be
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a session module only?
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A. Debian's (and some others) PAM distribution does not allow session
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modules to retrieve a user's password from the PAM subsystem. This
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is why pam_mount must be used as an auth module (in addition to a
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session module) on all systems.
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A. PAM discards the password after all modules from the "auth" stage
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have run, giving no possibility to retrieve it for "session" stage
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modules. In case pam_mount does not have the password by the time
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the session stage is executed, it will try to prompt for it.
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Q. I want to use a FUSE share as my home directory but GNOME/KDE do
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not seem to like this (error messages, lockups). Why?
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A. Big desktop environments as the aforementioned make use of locking,
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symbolic links, and potentially local sockets (UNIX sockets).
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If the filesystem and/or the remote server do not support these,
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error messages or lockups may ensue.
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