ACK! Well, looks like somewhere between my office and the user's office I forgot that you have to change smbmnt, not smbmount. Dopy admin. Sorry. b. On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 13:42, Brian K. Jones wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Redhat 8 machine, and another person in my department has one > as well. Almost identical Dell PCs. > > This user wanted to smbmount a directory as a regular user, but only > knew how to do it using mount -t as root. I tested some stuff on my > local machine: > > [jonesy@newhotness tmp]$ smbmount //newfs/jonesy /tmp/test > Password: > smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (30252,30252) > smbmnt failed: 1 > [jonesy@newhotness tmp]$ su > Password: > [root@newhotness tmp]# which smbmnt > /usr/bin/smbmnt > [root@newhotness tmp]# ls -l /usr/bin/smbmnt > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 554129 Aug 28 12:03 /usr/bin/smbmnt > [root@newhotness tmp]# chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbmnt > > This worked well - I was now able to use smbmount as a user to mount > directories. I also had to perform the above task to smbumount in order > to unmount the directory. > > So up to the user's office I go - I change the permissions exactly like > I did on my Psyche box, and something different happened. I got an error > saying: "libsmb tool MUST NOT be suid root". WTF??? So I changed the > perms back, and tried again. This time, I got the old "smbmnt must be > installed suid root for direct user mounts" error. > > What gives? > Thanks for any advice. > -- > > Brian K. Jones > System Administrator > Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University > jonesy@cs.princeton.edu > http://www.linuxlaboratory.org > http://phat.sourceforge.net > Voice: (609) 258-6080 > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Brian K. Jones System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University jonesy@cs.princeton.edu http://www.linuxlaboratory.org http://phat.sourceforge.net Voice: (609) 258-6080 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
