Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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echo "//smb-share/gino /mnt/place smbfs defaults,username=gino,password=pass 0 0" |sudo tee -a /etc/fsstab ;mount /mnt/place
Also, it's unwise to store passwords in a world-readable file. One way to fix this is to remove the world-readable part (not advised)sudo chmod o-r /etc/fstab
and a better way is to instead use the credentials parameter. For this save the username and pass in a file:echo -e "username=gino\npassword=pass">~/.smb.credentials ;chmod go-x ~/.smb.credentials
and then use this line in fstab instead.echo "//smb-share/gino /mnt/place smbfs defaults,credentials=/home/$USER/.smb.credentials 0 0" |sudo tee -a /etc/fsstab ;mount /mnt/place
This way your username and password is tucked away in your home dir. Note however, that it's still in plaintext, and any user with root access can still view it. A more secure method is to use smb4k or another user-space program that stores passwords encrypted, although it's not quite as seamless. Nonetheless, session managers tend to work out ok figuring these bits out, and symlinks make it relatively painless, without exposing a password.echo "This is my sentence" > myFile
causes "myFile" to be overwritten with just that sentence. I don't know why bash is behaving like that, it just does.... unless that's why you piped to sudo tee rather than piped stdout to fstab.