[Gllug] Mounting SMB shares on X Login

[Jonathan Dye]

At 17:06 10/12/01 +0000, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 16:53, Daniel Fairs wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to let users mount shares with smbmount (it complains
>> that it has to be run as root)? Otherwise, how will smbmount get the
correct
>> authentication information? 
>You need to alter the permissions on the smbmount executable.
>
>This makes it less secure but not much I think.  Have a look on google
>for set UID

Yikes, then anyone can mount any smb share anywhere surely?  Also, you
would be able to mount the files with a UID=0 and permission to execute
files thereby letting anyone have root access effectivly.

JD

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