> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gil Freund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip]
> Arik Baratz wrote:
> [snip]
> > In short: Why doesn't smbumount have a 'force' option? It's 
> > SUID root anyways, so it can in theory run umount as root.

> I don't know, but I guess such an option would actually be very 
> dangerous. If you mount an smb share under one login context, use it 
> under another login and try to force an unmount under a 
> third, you other 
> logins things can get really confusing.
> A windows client will not have this problem, as windows is 
> not multi-user.

smbumount can allow only the mounting user or root to unmount the share.

-- Arik
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