This release restores keyfile support for non-crypto mounts. A new cryptmount library is shipped that contains the code shared among pam_mount and its utilities. libmount from util-linux 2.20 is now utilized in part as well.

In this release, pam_mount starts making use of the helper= option available in util-linux >= 2.20 so that umounting crypto mounts should work through just the umount(8) program. A crash in ehd_log was fixed as well.

pam_mount is a Pluggable Authentication Module that can mount volumes for a user session

This module is aimed at environments with central file servers that a user wishes to mount on login and unmount on logout, such as (semi-)diskless stations where many users can logon and where statically mounting the entire /home from a server is a security risk, or listing all possible volumes in /etc/fstab is not feasible.

Users can define their own list of volumes without having to change (possibly non-writable) global config files.

Single sign-on feature — the user needs to type the password just once

Transparent mount process

No stored passwords

Volumes are unmounted on logout, freeing system resources and not leaving data exposed.

The module also supports mounting local filesystems of any kind the normal mount utility supports, with extra code to make sure certain volumes are set up properly because often they need more than just a mount call, such as encrypted volumes. This includes SMB/CIFS, NCP, FUSE, dm-crypt and LUKS.