Re: smbfs module

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On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:33 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:26:35PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:22 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > add it in your /etc/fstab with 'user' in the options field.
>  > 
>  > That doesn't work so well, or it didn't in FC4.  Is this fixed in
>  > rawhide?  Fc4 would complain that mount wasn't suid.
> 
> it worked for nfs, floppy, and vfat the last times I tried it.
> cifs should be no different.  If it is, mount.cifs needs fixing.

It works for nfs, floppy and vfat because they don't require an external
helper binary.  mount drops privs before calling the helpers and the
various helpers tend to recommend against having themselves suid.  This
is the same problem as exists with mounting fuse filesystems as a
user :-/

Jeremy

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