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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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vxumount

vxumount(1M)															      vxumount(1M)

NAME

       vxumount - unmount a VxFS file system

SYNOPSIS

       {special|mount_point}

DESCRIPTION

       unmounts  a  currently  mounted VxFS file system, which you can specify either as a mount_point or as special, the device on which the file
       system resides.

       Note: Only a privileged user can unmount file systems.

   Options
       recognizes the following option:

       Specifies the VxFS-specific options in a
		 comma-separated list.	The available argument is:

		 Unmounts a VxFS file system even if it contains a busy file.

			   If is not specified, does not unmount the file system if it contains a busy file.  Programs that try  to  access  files
			   after a file system is forcibly unmounted receive an EIO error.

			   Caution: Using the option can cause data loss for open files.

   Operands
       recognizes the following operands:

       mount_point
		 Name of the mount point for a VxFS file system.

       special	 The device on which the file system resides.

FILES

       table of mounted file systems

SEE ALSO

       fsadm_vxfs(1M), mkfs_vxfs(1M), mount(1M), mount_vxfs(1M), setmnt(1M), fsync(2), setuid(2), fs_vxfs(4), mnttab(4), vxfsio(7).

																      vxumount(1M)
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