[Gllug] Mounting SMB shares on X Login

[rich at annexia.org]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:16:07PM +0100, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like a job for 'sudo' ...

Rich.

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