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

[Johannes Scholz]

I went for the sudo variant. Thanks for all the help!

Regards,

Johannes Scholz

Am 27.07.2010 um 10:25 schrieb Boris Savelev:

> 2010/7/27 Toni Asensi Esteve <asmond at orange.es>:
>>>> 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
> 
> 
> oO
> 
> I didn't known about this bug. Sorry. Variant with sudo is the best.
> 
> -- 
> Boris
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