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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How to pass a password to `mount`?
From:       Brad Hards <bradh () frogmouth ! net>
Date:       2005-02-20 4:16:30
Message-ID: 200502201516.36416.bradh () frogmouth ! net
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:06 pm, Mark A. Taff wrote:
> In a shell, `mount /dev/loop0` will prompt me for a password, which I have
> to enter. =C2=A0I would like to be able to use kdiskfree to specify the m=
ount
> command as the script I'm writing. =C2=A0Kdialog would then prompt for a
> password.
>
> The key diff here is that according to man mount, you can specify the
> password within the mount command itself.
what happens if you
echo "password"  | mount  /dev/loop0 -p 0
on the command line

(where you echo the right password, of course).

Brad

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