[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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