On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Roger Grosswiler wrote: > > Hi, people, > > > > In FC4, I used to set SUID in /usr/bin/smbmnt and /usr/bin/smbumount, > > so that ordinary users could mount and umount smb shares in their > > home directories. However, these programs don't exist in FC5. I can > > mount smb shares using "mount -t cifs" as root, but how do I set up > > the system so that ordinary users can mount smb shares, as they did > > in FC4? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Marcelo > > > how i did (suboptimal) > > entering group users as sudoers using visudo, set them to > group% ALL:/usr/sbin/mount (not a 100% sure, did this before days...) > > then your users can mount using sudo. you can then write a nice little > script with mount -t cifs -o credentials... where you can put username and > password in an encrypted hidden file in users directory. Maybe you could use autofs?? I use autofs to mount samba shares. This enables the users to be able to do things like cd /machine_name/sharename. Regards, Tom Diehl tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx Spamtrap address mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx
