[olug] smbmount and fstab

[Brian Wiese]

yep, that sounds right.  i just remember reading a simple doc somewhere
that said if you wanted users to mount shares, smbmount had to be setuid.
=)  i would suggest sudo as well.

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:54:28 -0600
David Walker <linux_user at grax.com> wrote:

|You could use setuid but sudo is actually more limiting (read less
risky).  
|With setuid you have no control over the command line options they
specify 
|where you do with sudo.  Plus with sudo you can give out permissions on a
per 
|user or per group basis.
|
|I think if you call a setuid program and it calls another program that it

|would do it with root (or whichever user it is setuid as) permissions.
(Feel 
|free to correct me if this is not correct)
|
|
|On Tuesday 07 January 2003 06:50 pm, Brian Wiese wrote:
|> i haven't tried it yet.. but i'm working with samba currently also.  i
|> believe that the process of mounting a drive/fs and such is a
priviledged
|> operation, and so only root can do it.  i believe you can set one of
the
|> programs (smbmount?) as setuid root and then users can mount, with root
|> priviledges... short of giving them sudo rights.
|>
|> # chmod +s /usr/bin/smbmount
|>
|> But you'd be using "mount" instead no?  I wonder if that has to be
setuid
|> as well?
|>
|> I've done some basic samba stuff before, but its been awhile (6-9
months?
|> heck) and I think I've forgotten most things and don't have my network
|> setup as i did... so I'm tryn to catch up a lot on this SMB/CIFS stuff.
|>
|> Eric, have you any experience with a Samba PDC before? or anyone else?
|> How well does a linux samba domain controller work with an nt4 one?
|> I think I've read that nt4 will not work as a BDC to a samba PDC, but
that
|> a samba BDC will work with a nt4 PDC... is this correct?
|>
|> Any pointers or tips would be appreciated... migrating nt4 pdc to a
samba
|> one.
|>
|> peace
|> Brian
|>
|> On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 10:49:33 -0600
|>
|> Andrew Holm-Hansen <olug at einer.org> wrote:
|> |I vaguely remember reading about a similar problem.  Won't smbmount
(by
|> |default)  only run for uid=root?  Another thing to check is your
|> |smb.conf ... You can explicitely state which users have 'root'
|> |privelages on the share with the
|> |
|> |admin users = user1, user2, user3
|> |
|> |directive.
|> |
|> |I think I solved this problem and forgot the solution because mine
just
|> |works... ;(  Sorry.
|> |
|> |Andrew
|> |
|> |Eric Penne wrote:
|> |>I've partly figured out how to mount it as root and give the user
|> |>permissions to write.
|> |>
|> |>smbmount //nt_le/ericp$ /directory -o credentials=file,uid=epenne
|> |>
|> |>I added the uid=epenne before but there was a space instead of a
comma
|> |>and smbmount just ignored the uid flag.
|> |>
|> |>I still am not allowed to mount the drive without having root
|> |>privileges.  Can anybody help?
|> |>
|> |>Eric
|> |>
|> |>--- Eric Penne <epenne at yahoo.com> wrote:
|> |>>I'm having troubles mounting a device on an NT4 server and allowing
|> |>>the
|> |>>user (not root) to modify the filesystem.
|> |>>
|> |>>I want the user to be able to mount the filesystem when they login.
|> |>>I have to send a username and password to the NT server.
|> |>>I want the user to be able to modify and create files on the mount.
|> |>>
|> |>>I've added:
|> |>>
|> |>>//nt_le/ericp$ /home/epenne/fileserver/ericp smbfs
|> |>>defaults,noauto,user,owner 0 0
|> |>>
|> |>>to the /etc/fstab
|> |>>
|> |>>when I try to mount it asks for a password which it takes the
|> |>>username
|> |>>from my login of epenne when I want it to login as ericp.
|> |>>
|> |>>where can I pass the credentials file to the mount command?
|> |>>
|> |>>
|> |>>I've manually mounted this drive from root using the credentials
|> |>>file.
|> |>>The permissions on the drive were for root and user ericp couldn't
|> |>>write anything to the directories on the mounted drive.
|> |>>
|> |>>What options do I have to pass the username and password to smbmount
|> |>>through /etc/fstab?
|> |>>
|> |>>Eric
|>
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