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Operating Systems Linux grant root privileges to ordinary user Post 302233774 by jim mcnamara on Monday 8th of September 2008 11:52:48 AM
Old 09-08-2008
This is not a great idea - do you want smbmount or mount?
This makes the smbmount be setuid - it runs as the root user.
Code:
ln -s /usr/bin/smbmnt /bin/smbmnt
chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt

This would let users mount (& unmount if you setuid the the other file-smbunmount) Windows SMB mounted filesystems. Which is possibly the only valid mount/unmount you would want users doing. Otherwise they could trash your system. setuid on anything like mount is both a security risk and an open can of worms, waiting to crawl out.
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 09-08-2008 at 01:04 PM..
 

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rmtab

rmtab(4)                                                           File Formats                                                           rmtab(4)

NAME

       rmtab - remote mounted file system table

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/rmtab

DESCRIPTION

       rmtab  contains  a  table of filesystems that are remotely mounted by NFS clients. This file is maintained by mountd(1M), the mount daemon.
       The data in this file should be obtained only from  mountd(1M) using the MOUNTPROC_DUMP remote procedure call.

       The file contains a line of information for each remotely mounted filesystem. There are a number of lines of the form:

       hostname:fsname

       The mount daemon adds an entry for any client that successfully executes a mount request and deletes the appropriate entries for an unmount
       request.

       Lines  beginning  with a hash (' #') are commented out. These lines are removed from the file by mountd(1M) when it first starts up.  Stale
       entries may accumulate for clients that crash without sending an unmount request.

FILES

       /etc/rmtab

SEE ALSO

       mountd(1M), showmount(1M)

SunOS 5.10                                                          15 Nov 1990                                                           rmtab(4)
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