Re: pam_mount SMB

[John Newbigin <jnewbigin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are looking for a secure (no suid) and more robust (automount 
based) solution you might want to look at this:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/index.html

The page is a little out of date but the code still works fine.

John.

LeRoy DeVries wrote:

> On Sunday 27 November 2005 18:58, Murray Trainer wrote:
>
>
> > For users to mount filesystems you have to make one of smbmount, mount
> > or another mount program setuid root.  Look on Google for more info
>
>
> I have resolved the issue by doing chmod s+u  /usr/bin/smbmnt and chmod 
> s+u /usr/bin/usmbmount and then placed the line that David suggested in my 
> fstab. All is well now
>
> Thanks for your help everyone.
>
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