[FreeNX-kNX] windows/osx shares fail to mount

Toni Asensi Esteve asmond at orange.es
Tue Jul 27 07:42:40 UTC 2010


> > I could of course set the sticky bit on mount.cifs/mount.smbfs, but i do
> > not think
> > that that is the right approach.
> 
> why not?

As they say: 
	"Setting the setuid bit on mount.cifs is discouraged upstream and opens
	interesting security vulnerabilities:

	smbfs (2:3.4.5~dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low
	  * As of this version, the mount.cifs binary is no longer setuid.
	    Upstream has always been increasingly unsupportive of this
	    configuration over time. For instance, in bugs like
	    https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6853, it is clearly
	    mentioned that having it setuid root is discouraged.
	 -- Christian Perrier <email address hidden> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:09:00
	
	Ubuntu will not deviate from upstream or Debian in that respect. Rather
	than restoring the missing +s, I suggest you use "sudo" when running
	mount.cifs. If you need finer-grained control, you can use /etc/sudoers to
	define a specific group that could run that specific command without having
	access to the whole thing.

It's explained with more details in 
	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba
where you can search this string:
	/sbin/mount.cifs

Greetings:
Toni	



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