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
