Hi!
I have an issue calling mount_smbfs with a user from a specific domain. A sample shell call is
mount_smbfs -N -o nodev,nosuid "//DOMAIN;USER:PASS@SERVER_ADDRESS" /SOMEPATH
Using the code below I get an invalid command because the semicolon ends the command in shell.
var server = "//DOMAIN;USER:PASS@SERVER_ADDRESS"
let remotePath = "/REMOTEPATH"
let localPath = "/LOCALPATH"
let cmd = Process()
cmd.executableURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/sbin/mount_smbfs")
cmd.arguments = ["-N", "-o nodev,nosuid", "\(server)\(remotePath)", localPath]
Using a quoted semicolon
var server = "//DOMAIN\;USER:PASS@SERVER_ADDRESS"
does also not work, because the backslash is quoted to DOMAIN\\;USER automatically via Process class. So I end up with two backslash.
Using quotes did also not work for me.
Any clue how to solve this issue?
Process doesn’t run a shell. Rather, the arguments you pass to it get sent directly to the kernel which passes them verbatim to the child process. For example, this code:
import Foundation
func main() throws {
let p = Process()
p.executableURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/Users/quinn/echo.sh")
p.arguments = [ "Hello;Goodbye", "~/Cruel", "World", "!" ]
try p.run()
p.waitUntilExit()
}
try! main()
running this script:
% cat echo.sh
#! /bin/sh
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
echo $1
shift
done
prints:
Hello;Goodbye
~/Cruel
World
!
Note that the semicolon is passed through, there’s no expansion of ~, and the ! isn’t interpreted.
The problem with your Process code is that you’re passing -o nodev,nosuid as one argument, whereas the shell passes it as two. Consider this:
% /Users/quinn/echo.sh -o nodev,nosuid "//DOMAIN;USER:PASS@SERVER_ADDRESS" /SOMEPATH
-o
nodev,nosuid
//DOMAIN;USER:PASS@SERVER_ADDRESS
/SOMEPATH
As to how you get mount_smbfs to do what you want, that’s not really my area of expertise. However, if you can get it working from the shell then I can explain how to achieve the same result using Process.
Share and Enjoy
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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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